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Meanings of seize on in English
Synonyms
Examples for "take up"
Examples for "take up"
1
Employees can take up to seven days volunteering time off per year.
2
Political leaders need to take up the fight against homophobia and discrimination.
3
That is the case the Supreme Court will take up this year.
4
For example, young people may take up smoking if exposed to e-cigarettes.
5
We think it could even take up to a year, he said.
1
Bush stepped past her and snapped the latch on the office door.
2
Pete's left hand drifted down to the latch on the safety belt.
3
It finds things it can latch on to and multiplies the threat.
4
He slid the latch on the cell door across and stepped inside.
5
As I lifted the latch on the gate he opened his trap.
1
Peripherally, I saw her reach back and fasten on the officiator's wrist.
2
Every moment they seemed to be about to fasten on our faces.
3
Don't fret yourself; I'll fasten on to that before the war ends.
4
What passionately curious eyes did she now fasten on his prospective bride!
5
We should beware of the nature of the reveries that fasten on us.
1
Neither does it mean a hook on the end of the rod.
2
He rose and took a bathrobe from a hook on the door.
3
Two lines were thrown, each with a grappling hook on the end.
4
Troops can hook on a pint-sized gripper arm, with a rotating shoulder.
5
I took my Super Soaker down from its hook on the wall.
Usage of seize on in English
1
However, Melrose was not the only company to seize on the opportunity.
2
Perhaps, in the UK, Trump brings opportunities that we should seize on.
3
Nevertheless, he said Democrats would seize on the scandal to boost fund-raising.
4
Russia would seize on any paralysis to try to raise the bar.
5
I should have known she'd seize on that, so I kept talking.
6
Yet to see and seize on the opportunity when given is difficult.
7
Alexamenus, with all the Aetolians, hastened away, to seize on the palace.
8
His dilated eyes looked ready to seize on me for an illustration.
9
It is difficult to seize on the characteristics of my father's conversation.
10
You seize on Emmanuel's word that you are a monument of mercy.
11
Critics, however, are likely to seize on her lack of foreign policy experience.
12
Extremists of all sorts seize on and glorify violence -they always have.
13
Among the politicians to seize on the sense of unease was Alex Salmond.
14
He then orders an officer to seize on Dennis in France.
15
Disbelief over lawyer's comments Trump's critics were prompt to seize on the exchange.
16
Yesterday and the day before they did not seize on them any more.
