Synonym: fasten on, hook on, latch on, take up. Similar words: seize, seized, seize up, capitalize on, seize an opportunity, seizing, seizure, doze off. Meaning: v. adopt.
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1. He seized on a bar and went up to them.
2. They seized on the waste tools and went away with them.
3. He was quick to seize on this idea.
4. Peter seized on her last comment.
5. She seized on my suggestion and began work immediately.
6. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.
7. She seized on every excuse to avoid doing the work.
7. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
8. The rumours were eagerly seized on by the local press.
9. I suggested a cycling holiday, and he seized on the idea.
10. The story was seized on by the tabloid press, who printed it under huge headlines.
11. The critics seized on my mistake and said I was ignorant.
12. He seized on my mistake and said I didn't understand.
13. Still other companies seize on one of the cure-alls currently being widely touted and hope that it will do the trick.
14. He was seized on January 17, and by February 6 was in Moscow as a prisoner of war.
15. Anyway, they've seized on this legal brouhaha as an example of Albion's perfidy, so to speak.
16. Three minutes later Sharp was denied by Chamberlain, but Milligan seized on the loose ball to score.
17. The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour.
18. Consequently, the parents often seize on anything as a portent which confirms their wishes.
19. He expected these waterways to be seized on his behalf by the Union navy.
20. Seizing on one cause and inflating its opposite within a problematic framework of assumptions is not the answer.
21. The criminal seized on the new opportunity for a quick get-away across state boundaries.
22. O'Connell seized on a bad back-pass to lob the winner.
23. Phillips seized on a long ball and found himself with only Manninger to beat.
24. We'll seize on this chance.
25. He must seize on a solution, however risky.
26. People will seize on any opportunity to reduce competition.
27. Hoped the outstanding enterprise can the seize on a chance, become the profession lead goat.
28. The first half Italy kicks bad, but Slovakia takes the lead the seize on a chance to score a goal.
29. In sum, he has to be very proactive and seize on any available opportunity to win.
30. The paper's Saturday editorial says citizens must be conscious of the threat from people inside and outside the country with ulterior motives who want to seize on China's problems to incite unrest.
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