Sentence examples for we seized on from inspiring English sources

While the men and women who had fought in those wars never spoke of them at home, we seized on books such as Carrie's War and Goodnight Mister Tom, by Michelle Magorian.

We seized on this idea of the crossfader as the minimal gesture of DJing".

As part of an effort to address this question, we seized on our observation that 3′ UTR regions of non-regulatory genes show lower conservation than their coding regions.

And when we seize on something?

We seize on clues, sift the evidence.

Are these the sorts of things that we seize on in his case because they fit a narrative, when we'd ignore them if it were another candidate?

So we seize on the figure of Gilligan as a symbol that stands for all that we know was wrong at Abu Ghraib and all that we cannot — or do not want to — understand about how it came to this.

But it's also what some of us do, from the Rev. Jerry Falwell most egregiously to neoconservative pundits to well-meaning liberals, when we seize on the present crisis to admonish what we despise.

We seize on that opportunity, working them hard for the duration of our program.

Investors seized on silver last year.

Democrats seized on the comment.