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Example sentences for "take the"

  • I'll take the chances on dropping into this town just once more, for a look.

  • After some further questioning, counsel for the prosecution said: "Take the witness.

  • Counsel for the prosecution said: "Take the witness.

  • If Ray would let me take the hatchet, I could kill one all right.

  • He clearly wished her to take the responsibility.

  • Everything seemed suddenly to take the form of a desire for action.

  • Take the good-for-nothing wretch out of our house.

  • The grand vizier immediately sent for her, and as soon as she was brought Schaibar said, at the time he fetched a stroke at her with his iron bar: "Take the reward of thy pernicious counsel, and learn to feign sickness again.

  • He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water, that she might bake a cake for him.

  • Therefore, in your new form, take the appearance of all these animals.

  • I would counsel you, my lord, either to fly to France or take the protection of the Queen Mother.

  • I will see the other drawings first, and if I think mine are as good, I will be glad to take the money to-morrow.

  • If it is a gamble whether I get this moth, I'll take the chance; but I won't change my foreordained programme for this afternoon.

  • Take the platform," came in a roar from a hundred throats.

  • I can soon gather jimson leaves and seed to fill orders, the hemlock is about right to take the fruit, the mustard is yet in pod, and the saffron and wormseed can be attended later.

  • I can't take the risk, after all these years of waiting for the real thing.

  • Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.

  • It is all a groping and ignorant effort to construct out of base metal and brass filings, so to speak, something to take the place of that golden treasure denied them by Nature, a child.

  • But, laws bless you, take the dog, and go and hunt his remainders.

  • Here is Brace Dunlap--let him deny his share of it if he wants to take the chance; I'll engage to make him wish he hadn't said anything.

  • Our lawyer joggled him, and then he looked up startled, and says, "Take the witness if you want him.

  • No; I want to take the pledge," said "No.

  • It was added--perhaps by a department clerk--that if they wanted a gun to take the place of the one they had lost, they had better capture it.

  • Take the monologue of Fra Lippo Lippi for example.

  • Till, at ending, all the judges Cry with one assent "Take the prize--a prize who grudges Such a voice and instrument?

  • That were to take the Prior's pulpit-place, {310} Interpret God to all of you!

  • In the evening, dressed in a blouse, he went to some secluded spot to take the air.

  • Shall we ask Ozma to let us take the Sawhorse?

  • The silly creature is so vain that she will be greatly shamed when the Oz people see her in this condition, and perhaps she'll take the lesson to heart and leave the monkeys alone hereafter.

  • If we take the forms of some of the other beasts, we shall not command proper respect.

  • I am willing enough to take the blame of it, if there is any blame.

  • I should hardly like to take the liberty, then," said Phil.

  • I saw him enter the car, and know he has had no opportunity to take the ring.

  • Those who know it thoroughly don't take the trouble.

  • She did not knock or ring; and seeing nobody to take the horse, Elfride led her round to the yard, slipped off the bridle and saddle, drove her towards the paddock, and turned her in.

  • Granice looked at him hopelessly, trying to take the measure of his quick light irreverent mind.

  • Why, take the instance in your own family: I'd forgotten I had an illustration at hand!

  • And as he continued to stare, she brought out sublimely: "Take the rest--in imagination!

  • If fire had come down from heaven or the earth opened and swallowed me, there would have been nobody to see the sport or take the lesson, or whatever you like to call it.

  • And I’ll take the freedom of telling you you show a queer kind of gratitude to a man who’s got into all this mess along of your affairs.

  • Give me your fifty dollars, take the bottle, and wish your fifty dollars back into your pocket.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take the" 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:
    auricular confession; closing the door behind; greatest diameter; take account; take arms; take counsel; take good; take great; take hold; take notice; take office; take pictures; take pleasure; take service; take shelter; take steps; take that; taken aback; taken away; taken captive; taken every; taken possession; taken together; takes fire; takes notice; various objects