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Example sentences for "take charge"

  • The first need is to take charge of the graves of the Confederate dead who died in Northern prisons.

  • Would you venture to take charge of the case?

  • The young doctor asked nothing better than to take charge of the case, which proved more serious than might have been at first expected, and kept him in attendance more than a week.

  • Of all the trials which those who take charge of others' health and lives have to undergo, this is the most painful.

  • Bring your marines in--take charge of these two.

  • After this, such repairs as were immediately necessary were made, and a portion of the Aurora's crew, under the orders of the second lieutenant, were sent on board to take charge of her.

  • A man who is a born artist would rather paint a frieze or a picture or carve a statue than he would do plain work, or take charge of and direct the labour of others.

  • Tim Shearer was foreman of Camp One; Scotty Parsons was drafted from the veterans to take charge of Two; Thorpe engaged two men known to Tim to boss Three and Four.

  • He found there Scotty Parsons, who had come up to take charge of the crew engaged in clearing French Creek.

  • I don't know much about logging, and I shall want you to take charge of all that, but I shall want to know just why you do each thing, and if my judgment advises otherwise, my judgment goes.

  • You'll have to take charge, and I guess you'd better let the scaling go.

  • They wanted me to take charge of Perkinson's drive and hang her a purpose.

  • Howard had been summoned to Washington to take charge of the new Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and, from that time till the army was finally disbanded, General John A.

  • At Rhodes there might be danger for women and children, but when they return to Europe to take charge of the estates, surely they would do their duty no worse for having wives?

  • Much credit, too, is due to the merchant captains and sailors who volunteered to take charge of the fire ships and to manoeuver them alongside the Turks.

  • And so, in this great extremity, the only duty which pressed upon her was the idea of supplicating the saints to take charge of her unhappy affairs.

  • His offer to take charge of the Worth residencia and estate was in her conviction a proposal to rob them of all rights in it.

  • He has brought this letter for you from our son Thomas; and he has been so kind as to take charge of some fine horses, and sell them well for him in San Antonio.

  • You'll have to take charge of the men and the work and all the rest of it--I don't know anything about that.

  • As far as the rear crew should overtake these divisions, either it would absorb them or the members of them would be thrown forward beyond the lowermost beat, to take charge of a new division down stream.

  • Orde, watching them a few moments, satisfied himself that they would succeed, and so departed up river to take charge of the rear.

  • Well, unless he has changed a lot since I used to know him, he needs some one to take charge of him.

  • He felt himself abundantly able to take charge of an exploring expedition, or to reorganize a department, to do anything which the Institute might ask him to do.

  • The bank there had charge of her account, such as it was, and she wished to have it take charge of the, to her, huge sum of real money which Mr. Bangs had brought.

  • Tom Jordan afterward was ordered to Zanesville, to take charge of that rendezvous, under the general War Department orders increasing the number of recruiting-stations.

  • In that event, I beg you will send or appoint some authorized agent to take charge of the arms and munitions of war belonging to the State, or advise me what disposition to make of them.

  • If you would be so good as to take charge of her, and deliver her safely to Dr.

  • DEAR MADAM: I learn from my friend, Mrs. Wade, of Oxford College, that you are going to be kind enough to take charge of me across the ocean.

  • I therefore requested Porter to run the batteries with his fleet that night, and to take charge of the transports, all of which would be wanted below.

  • Halleck suggested that some good man, like Sherman or McPherson, should be sent to Memphis to take charge of the troops going east.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take charge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dust storms; false show; old and; person have; slender waist; take another; take away; take charge; take down; take flight; take from; take heed; take him; take long; take measures for the; take observations; take passage; take pictures; take shelter; take some; take things; take you; taken collectively; taken into; taken place; taken prisoner