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Example sentences for "take service"

  • In his distress the prince was forced to take service with a rich Hindu, and he had nothing to live on but what his master chose to give him, and all he had to wear was a loin cloth like the poorest labourer.

  • As there was not enough to eat at home Kara had to take service as goat-herd under a neighbouring Raja; by which he earned his food and clothes and two rupees a year.

  • The Strong man's cultivation did not prosper, and after three or four years he found himself at the end of his means and had again to take service with a farmer.

  • Nigel did not reply, but he felt more than ever determined not to take service on shore, however tempting the offers he might receive.

  • Perchance if you are inclined to take service at court you may obtain a post, though his Majesty King Henry does not generally bestow such without an ample equivalent.

  • Still he did us a good turn; for on the 16th he persuaded his men to take service with us at the enormous hire of ten necklaces of beads per man for every day's march--nearly ten times what an Arab pays.

  • Some Wanyamuezi porters, who had been left sick here by former caravans, now wished to take service with me as far as Kaze; but the Wagogo, hearing of their desire, frightened them off it.

  • Certainly, when I crossed the seas to take service here, I little thought how terrible was the struggle that was approaching.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take service" 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:
    prison walls; take any; take charge; take delight; take each; take flight; take good; take hold; take notice; take pleasure; take position; take post; take refuge; take revenge; take stock; take you; taken down from the; taken every; taken out; taken possession; taken prisoner; taken three; takes away; takes notice; takes occasion; takes the