How to Use seizure in a Sentence

seizure

noun
Definition of seizurenext
Synonyms for seizurenext
  • Not all searches and seizures by the police require a warrant.
  • Kidd’s seizure of the Quedagh Merchant was among the last legendary hauls.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Rain placed her body on top of River to try and stop his seizures.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In such cases, seizures and/or coma may be the first sign of a low.
    — Jordyn Bradley, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
  • While the band was setting up, Lee had a seizure, fell, and hit his head on a bass drum.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
  • One of the seizures was at the York Middle School while having lunch with a student.
    — Max Sullivan, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Ukraine has sharply criticized the seizure of its land.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the vehicle seizures have revolved around drugs.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The mayor's office confirmed that the seizure took place on Monday.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The warrant authorizing the seizure of the Schiele was dated Sept. 12.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Footage has been released by the Iranian navy that shows the seizure of a foreign vessel in the Gulf of Oman.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The woman was not criminally charged but the Fish and Wildlife Service ordered the seizure of the bones.
    — Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The flows of migrants and seizures of drugs are vastly different.
    — Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The seizure of those documents is part of a fact-finding mission.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • After the first seizure, Wilson went to the county office building to get her car back.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Two days later, Sara had a massive stroke followed by a seizure.
    — Katheryn Houghton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • One 17-month-old girl developed a fever and had a seizure possibly linked to the vaccine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • Gabapentin gained first approval in 1993, and is used to treat nerve pain, partial seizures and fibromyalgia.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 22 May 2024
  • Those seizures resulted in 32 arrests and 63 felony charges.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In very extreme cases, this can cause people to collapse or have a seizure.
    — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The cause was brain seizures, said his brother Ken Lerner, who is also an actor.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk.
    — Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
  • The toughest measures to date came in 2020, nine years after the start of the war and the same year that the first massive seizures of Captagon drugs were being recorded.
    — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that is caused by a fever and occurs in young, healthy kids.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The first seizure happened on a September morning last year.
    — John Johnston, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
  • One of the early episodes of the original Pokémon anime gave people seizures in Japan.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Shields then explained that her seizure was triggered by low sodium.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • That was before last week’s shock seizure of Aleppo in a push led by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The family's biggest needs are gift cards for Uber and Lyft because Canales can no longer drive after a recent seizure.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Fluid had then collected between his brain and skull and pressure built, eventually triggering seizures.
    — Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024

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