Sentence examples for would have seized from inspiring English sources

Julius Caesar would have seized on the figures with alacrity.

Still, it's difficult to imagine that anyone but Atatürk would have seized it so fully.

Had Billie Holiday lived long enough, I would like to imagine she would have seized it.

They warned that windshields could be "sandblasted" and engines would have seized up had they been allowed to take off.

He would have seized a silicon throne but for some purloined software here, a botched algorithm there.

Had I been thinking about it, I would have seized the chance to have a Michael Hughes moment.

If I'd been competing myself I'm sure I'd have seized upon the 'actor + dilemma' combination (as many did) and tried to bring 'doctor' in, with oblique reference to Shaw's play.

But without the threat of it, he says, he most likely would not have seized the opportunities of the diversion program.

A few months ago, they would probably have seized control of the game and left Gloucester without even a bonus point, but they were sucked into the anarchy and it was Youngs' failure to stop Tim Molenaar that allowed Gloucester to equalise with 13 minutes to go.

You can be sure that Vladimir Putin wouldn't have seized Crimea if Ukraine had kept their nuclear weapons.

Had he been aware of it, he would also undoubtedly have seized upon a 2013 report by Stonewall, which revealed that one in six lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK had been the victim of a homophobic hate crime or incident in the previous three years.