seizure
Example Sentences
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Due to the scale of the seizure, centers will remain open Sunday to help free up shelter space for the animals seized during Friday’s raid.
From Los Angeles Times
The coroner heard some staff and patients thought she was faking the seizures to get attention.
From BBC
This method of lightning search and seizure was called the razzia, and every family with young men lived in dread of it.
From Literature
The next track, “Excited Delirium,” a high-speed roadhouse rave-up about unlawful search and seizure, is defiant and angry.
So “what initially looked like a catastrophic blockade begins to resemble a constrained detour, rather than a full seizure of the artery,” Innes said.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
