lay hold of's Usage Examples:

the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.

entitled to appropriate as a compliment is only that part which I may lay hold of as being the opinion of the convention and of the League, that I am not.

The Turks seized all they could lay hold of, and threatened death unless on payment of large ransom.

though the hand can handle and examine extremely small things, it cannot lay hold of the brightness [of the sun and moon].

"Unruly and unorderly spirits lay hold of ye motion of affairs," Spencer wrote, "and that under.

philosophers "because [they have] to arise out of the sea of change and lay hold of true being.

" The philosopher, on the other hand, must be an arithmetician "because he has to arise out of the sea of change and lay hold of true.

good and evil, which if he do not, he will neither shun the evil, nor lay hold of the good.

and musical splendor of the church encompassed "everything that can lay hold of eye, ear, and imagination, everywhere which can charm and bewitch the.

, that "the working class cannot simply lay hold of ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

to the Bait in the Net, and was taken; and as the Man came running to lay hold of her; Friend, says the poor Black-Bird, if this be your way of Building.

The enemy players seek to lay hold of this gold ring; a single pull denudes the sheirl.

of the giant beast: "it is said that if [the creature"s arms] were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom".

Synonyms:

uphold, bear on, conserve, housekeep, maintain, pressurize, distance, keep, pressurise, preserve, continue, carry on, hold over,

Antonyms:

discontinue, be born, survive, outgo, stand,