How to Use seizing in a Sentence

seizing

noun
  • As though the only thing worse than my child seizing is being surprised by it.
    — Taylor Harris, Time, 18 Sep. 2021
  • With his seizing of this moment, and with this sudden workload.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Because life—even for us jaded adults—should be for the seizing, not for hesitating in the face of fear.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But the seizing of that eight-square-mile spit of volcanic debris was exceedingly costly.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • That turmoil would include a seizing up of the short-term funding markets that keep the economy going.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Mr Kagame, whose seizing of power ended the genocide, reimposed order.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • Unexplained-wealth orders will make the seizing of such assets easier.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The seizing of the tanker late Friday was seen as a significant escalation.
    — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2019
  • Whether that means learning a new skill or harnessing your talents in a different way, the opportunity is there for the seizing.
    — cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The seizing of fame and money—not connecting with and building a true and natural audience—has become the goal for many artists today.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The search warrant return record does not report the seizing of Kohberger’s cellphone or his car, though each is now in police custody.
    — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Searcy was also charged in two additional cases, also involving the seizing of money from people who had been stopped.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The Guardians’ pitching staff fueled the club’s historic seizing of the AL Central.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • President Biden has said the seizing of reporters' records will be stopped under his administration.
    — Barbara Starr, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • The simplicity was in the seizing, something that has not always been the case this season for the Miami Heat.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
  • This is not to minimize Golden State’s championship pedigree and seizing of the series.
    — Dallas News, 23 May 2022
  • Announcers constantly call attention to the seizing of momentum.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Right there for the seizing, the crucial times instead have consumed the offense through unyielding pressure, a torrent of sacks, two intentional grounding calls and an interception.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Meaning, presumably the border patrol under the Biden administration did the seizing?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The sudden spate of attacks across the country has upended the relative calm that followed the Taliban’s seizing of power last August, which ended 20 years of war.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • Alabama law awards 100 percent of the proceeds of successful forfeitures to the policing agencies doing the seizing and the prosecutors handling the cases.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The theory is that each of these tax rates distinctly discourages the production and the seizing of initiative in the economy; therefore, cutting them enhances economic activity to an uncommon degree.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Regulation that stifles that innovation would represent a seizing of the market by the only companies rich and well-connected enough to navigate the FDA’s costly approval process.
    — Jacob Grier, Slate Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
  • And the state carrier, Aeroflot, has stopped all international flights, a decision industry analysts say would prevent the seizing of planes leased from Western companies under international sanctions.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Congressional power fell in the lap of Republicans, thanks to the departure of Wigfall and his southern colleagues; their seizing of it seems, in retrospect, less a matter of superior gamesmanship than a law of political gravity.
    — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The occupation of 2928 Magnolia Street was a loving act of good mothering, a seizing of the means of caretaking that racial capitalism so regularly denies Black mothers.
    — Maximillian Alvarez, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Those efforts will include fending off attempts by the Russians to undermine the financial restrictions, targeting the use of cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions and the seizing of Russian oligarchs’ assets, the Justice Department said.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • All these moments are good for audience groans and there’s an enjoyable bad movie here for the seizing — that is when Cronin isn’t steering the action back to Egypt for an underpowered mystery thread involving a one-dimensional Cairo detective (May Calamawy) pursuing the root of the trouble.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The seizing of the 26 Racing on Demand machines and the money within the machines by 21 state Department of Justice employees and two Arcadia Police personnel on Saturday is forcing those in the horse racing orbit to take sides.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026

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