Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight against him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him.
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.
And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known to them.
He there says, 'having contracted guilt upon my soul, and having some distemper of body upon me, I supposed that death might now so seize upon, as to take me away from among men.
The first having been thus landed, the rest were then returned for and carried across.
Fear dispersed the rest far and wide, not less effectually than a storm.
Caius Maenius was accordingly nominated, and he appointed Marcus Foslius master of the horse.
Thus arranged they were standing within the gates.
It was his duty to assail Johnston, destroy him if possible, seize upon Atlanta, the great railroad center of the South, and push a column thence to the sea.
Neither were these spirits content with that discord they did sow among us, but they proceeded to seize upon others.
Daumier's genius lay in his ability to caricature the human face, to seize upon a minimum of lines and points, to catch some absurd semblance to an inanimate object, some symbolic suggestion.
As with the campaign song, its success depends upon its timeliness, upon the ability to seize upon a critical moment, a burning question of the hour, and anticipate the outcome while public excitement is still at a white heat.
They now and then give particulars of time, place, and circumstance which their modern transcribers seize upon as a miner seizes on the rare and welcome nugget; but these are entirely beyond their own intention.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seize upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
