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Example sentences for "taking place"

  • While this building up is taking place, man lives outside the physical world.

  • We have before us a process which is taking place—on a higher level—much as though we were observing a lump of ice being formed by artificial means in a vessel of water.

  • When all this is taking place, the Sons of Personality are on the same level on which man now stands.

  • The Long Pull, Strong Pull, and a Pull all together is taking place on the mainland.

  • The scene is taking place on the premises of the inventor and manufacturer of the patent articles in question.

  • The incident depicted is taking place at the door of the rectory, beside the church porch, where a crane has been erected for the accommodation of the gouty and unwieldy divine.

  • But a change is taking place in China such as has revolutionized Japan within the last half century.

  • Even now Japanese, as well as foreigners, complain that the merchants impose upon their customers, but here also a change is taking place and a new order of things being inaugurated.

  • I found to my disappointment that Tolstoy is not contributing materially to the political revolution that is taking place in Russia.

  • That some small military movements were taking place in the neighbourhood was proved by the occasional sound of rifle-firing which I heard in the distance.

  • I did not know what had become of Major Polchow, but late in the afternoon he came up with a staff officer, and I pointed out to him the unnecessary slaughter which was taking place owing to the exposed position of the guns.

  • The King, you know, is my godfather, and I trust that my representation of what is taking place at Poitiers may do some good.

  • An elevation to this amount is taking place in Scandinavia, and probably in many submarine areas as vast as those which we know to be sinking from the proofs derived from circular lagoon islands or coral atolls.

  • Or what conceivable difference does it make that one narrative represents the women as seeing one angel, and another two; and that one describes the appearance as taking place inside, and another outside the sepulchre?

  • Defn: A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

  • Defn: Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.

  • The main fact that the author of the Acts describes a general congress of the Church as taking place is never called in question.

  • It should not be forgotten that pyæmia is an infectious disease, having its origin in a local nidus, an open wound, in which putrefaction of pus or other wound-fluid is taking place.

  • It occasionally happens that while cicatrization is taking place at one end of the ulcer the process of necrosis and ulceration is still going on at the other, so that two or more ulcers may occasionally run together.

  • And laws would be passed to prevent the scheming that's taking place everywhere, the hatred and the violence.

  • Only this time it wasn't taking place in a crowded subway train in total darkness, or up near the top of a swaying spiral where an assassin's aim could be a little less than sure.

  • It is the crucial factor in everything that is taking place on Mars.

  • Helped out by setting and costumes, the following shows that the play is taking place at the time of the French Revolution.

  • In the old days, and even today, if the truth be regarded, something must be taking place on the stage sufficient to allow time for a lover, however ardent, to cover the distance between the telephone booth and the house.

  • When nothing is taking place on the stage, something is taking place in the audience which greatly concerns the dramatist: it is slipping away from him because it is losing interest.

  • And it is a strange thing to be entirely unaware as to whether its genesis is to be looked on as taking place in the body, or whether it comes from without and is contained in the food.

  • The presence of carbon dioxide in the jar is an indication that a very important process which we associate with animals rather than plants, that of respiration, is taking place.

  • While movement is taking place, the gastric juice acts upon proteins, softening them, while the constant churning movement tends to separate the bits of food into finer particles.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taking place" 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:
    exclusive jurisdiction; franc pieces; giving her; indifferent things; less completely; native city; nine months; our ships; shorter time; small canoe; taking advantage; taking away; taking care; taking his; taking occasion; taking over; taking snuff; taking the; taking their; taking them; teaspoon lemon; temple dedicated; venomous snake; what account; where late; would only