Sentence examples for she seized upon from inspiring English sources
She seized upon the boredom angle.
When she heard about BRCA testing, she seized upon it as a means of saving her life.
But Rabbi Buechler has been at it since college, when she seized upon the manicures "as a way for me to personally explore my own Jewish learning".
But instead of turning to the Prozac, she seized upon cookery writer Julia Childs as her guide back to the brighter shores of life.
She seized upon the opportunity created by 9/11 to portray Abu Sayyaf as international terrorists, accepted an offer by President Bush to eradicate them, and promptly won $100 million in fresh American military aid.
For the first time in weeks, she linked Mr. Lazio to the reign of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, a strategy she seized upon when Mr. Lazio entered the race but then quickly dropped.
And in the surreal "Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House," she seizes upon an unfinished tale of Poe's, written as a fictitious diary, and recreates it as the poet's own feverish journal, symbolically begun the day he died.
"It's an initiative the mayor seized upon," Mr. Carey said.
And with her audience generally limited to fringe groups, she recently seized upon some silly patter on a late night talk show, and with the Media's help has turned it into a cause celebre.
In Britain she's been seized upon by NME and recently finished its multidate tour with other hot new acts.
Do you think she may have seized upon this minor slight as an excuse to end the friendship?
