“seized on”可以造什么句，seized on造句

His property was seized on by his uncle.

She was seized on a Milan station platform by two Gestapo agents.

Bob seized on the rain as an excuse for missing school.

Fans hungry for the missing Millennium novels have seized on the legal drama surrounding them as a substitute.

Thai navy officers display Bengal tigers, leopards, and pangolins seized on the Mekong River near the Thailand-Laos border on Jan. 29, 2008.

Companies have quickly seized on this idea to produce a wide variety of products, from clothes to soap and even chopsticks, containing silver nanoparticles.

Often the parts they have seized on have been a little like the elephant's tusks — a striking, But unrepresentative, part of the whole animal.

Opponents of the war seized on the documents to make their case. "92,000 reasons to get out of Afghanistan and Pakistan: Pick one," was the headline on a news release by Kucinich.

This has been seized on in the Democratic campaign as evidence that a shrewd decision to husband resources during the summer and make a late advertising splurge at the end is bearing fruit.

The committee seized on Councillor Jones's idea for a party in December with a professional Father Christmas-to be paid for out of the budget for entertaining overseas visitors.

They seized on the ship and imprisoned the crew.

Last year alone, the WWF says, over 20 tonnes of elephant ivory was seized on ships en route to Asia.

American conservatives have seized on this reversal of fortune: Arthur Laffer, a Reaganite economist, hails the Texan model over the Gipper's now hopelessly leftish home.

Although, for many Americans, ethnic and even religious differences had become increasingly less important— holiday rather than everyday material— as the century developed, many postwar writers seized on these differences to achieve a detached point of view on American life.

The New Yorker's cartoonists, each in his or her own way, have seized on the business world and found laughter in its codes, cliches, rivalries, desperations, vanities, anxieties, and power relations.

Corporate reformers immediately seized on the crisis as yet more proof of their arguments.

But opponents have seized on another fish tale -- Mr. Goetschel's defense of the big pike -- to argue that a mandatory public defender could make for absurd results.

Speech is easy to be seized, seized on the spot, hum!

Students seized on the ideal knocking on doors throughout eastbourne after school in search of sponsors to pledge a small sum for each word the pupils could spell correctly.

He came to the gold booth, seized on the gold and walked back, as a result of which he was caught by the patrol on the spot.