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.
  • This is especially true of focal seizures, which originate in only one part of your brain.
    — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • According to law enforcement, this is the largest seizure of fentanyl in the state's history.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Two brothers are being hailed as heroes for their quick-thinking after their mother suddenly had a seizure while driving.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the past two decades, her health struggles have included sarcoma, Paget's disease, seizures and tumors.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • In the press conference held Monday, officials said that this seizure was the largest in the history of the Atlanta division.
    — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • After the first seizure, Wilson went to the county office building to get her car back.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The cause was brain seizures, said his brother Ken Lerner, who is also an actor.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Shields then explained that her seizure was triggered by low sodium.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Even after the 1960s seizure, Black families continued to live around the perimeter of the college.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • After a seizure at two months, doctors sequenced his genome and found a single misspelling in a gene called TNPO2.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 May 2024
  • For months after the seizure, Barzman denied making the paintings.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • After the second seizure, medical staff summoned Von Lintig, but the doctor did not go to the cell to check on Serna.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • From the following year on, a series of attacks and ship seizures attributed to Iran have raised tensions.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The school has erected a plaque and an exhibit chronicling the 1960s seizure of the community.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2023
  • From the following year on, a series of attacks and ship seizures attributed to Iran raised tensions.
    — Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023

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