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Example sentences for "taking the"

  • With a stiff little bow, addressed to Eustace, she left us as his mother had left us taking the way to Broadstairs, and walking rapidly.

  • The idea of taking the Master's punishment on herself was the one idea in her mind.

  • Reflection decided me on taking the responsibility, whatever it might be, upon my own shoulders.

  • Ivan Ogareff was no longer ignorant of the fact that a courier of the Czar had just passed Omsk, taking the direction of Irkutsk.

  • Fifty thousand good men, taking the Tartars on the flank, will soon set us free.

  • You take the privilege of refusing to be my lawyer, and then you complain of my taking the privilege of refusing to be your landlord.

  • After what has just happened, do you still object to taking the course I have had the honor of suggesting to you?

  • That Iroquois will never harm any one more; but yonder skulking savage is bent on taking the scalp of my best and most tried friend.

  • Taking the arm of Jasper, he led him to a log, where he compelled the young man to seat himself by a sort of irresistible exercise of his iron muscles, and where he placed himself at his side.

  • It was decided that I should be of the party, taking the name of the baroness de Pamklek, a German lady, as that would save me from the embarrassment in which I should be placed with the king in consequence of my non-presentation.

  • Tell the duchesse d'Aiguillon that she will oblige me by taking the comtesse du Barry to pass two or three days with her at Ruel.

  • The terrified animal swerved in taking the leap, and dashed him against a tree.

  • A few days later, Mrs. Rymer's politeness carried her to the length of taking the journey to London to make inquiries at my door.

  • Taking the brewery on my way back, I raised the rusty latch of a little door at the garden end of it, and walked through.

  • Taking the table to represent the path of virtue, I am justified in stating that during the whole time of the Aged's reading, Wemmick's arm was straying from the path of virtue and being recalled to it by Miss Skiffins.

  • Also, they stood about the door of the Jolly Bargemen, with knowing and reserved looks that filled the whole neighborhood with admiration; and they had a mysterious manner of taking their drink, that was almost as good as taking the culprit.

  • Her husband, a wheelwright, who on the death of an uncle had amazed Vauchamp by taking the Cafe de Paris, had one fine day brought her back with him from Montpellier, where he was wont to repair twice a year to purchase liqueurs.

  • He was unable to; he is taking the countess to the ball at the Ministry of the Interior tonight.

  • And the two, taking the cart, which there was now no use for, returned to Granite House.

  • A pure and regular life, divided between recreation and studies intentionally abridged, taking the place of a disorderly existence of which the pleasures and the pains were equally horrible, exhausted the convent-boarder.

  • The coolest rest, the calmest nights, taking the place of crushing fatigue and the most torturing agitation, gave her low fever, in which the common symptoms were imperceptible to the nursing Sister's eye or finger.

  • There the choice was, steadily confronting her: the choice of taking the Rogue, or of turning her back on the Purpose.

  • I leave you a hundred pounds; and I write a private letter enjoining you, on taking the legacy, not to devote it to your own purposes, but to give it to some third person, whose name I have my own reasons for not mentioning in my will.

  • Decide as you like, but don't be afraid of taking the money.

  • She saw the uselessness of resisting him any longer; and, taking the candle, went before him upstairs.

  • Like water, taking the line of least resistance.

  • Then, taking the king's sons as hostage, he returned to make his report to Tou Ku.

  • One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

  • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.

  • To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taking 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:
    adding that; each copy; full blast; give credit; intrenched camp; leaves simple; never heerd; pure mathematics; save thee; setting fire; significant look; sitting position; sixty dollars; taking advantage; taking care; taking charge; taking her; taking his; taking leave; taking occasion; taking over; taking part; taking possession; taking snuff; taking the; taking them