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Example sentences for "taking"

Lexicographically close words:
takers; takes; takest; taketh; takin; takinge; takings; takis; takken; takkin
  1. It was the waking from a life of doing nothing but lying in bed and sleeping and eating and growing, to a life of taking care of one's self and helping to take care of others; it was the waking from a baby life to real bee life.

  2. If you are tired of taking care of the babies you can do something else next week.

  3. Nuova, taking a lesson from the method of the attackers, had looked about, even as she leaped into the fight, for the leader of the Blacks, and had fought her way fiercely directly toward her.

  4. Schopenhauer said that "Jacobi had the trifling weakness of taking all he had learned and approved before his fifteenth year for inborn ideas of the human mind.

  5. We criticize this utterance as not sufficiently taking into account the nature of the right.

  6. Since every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other, no one particle can be exhaustively explained without taking account of all the rest.

  7. It is an act of omnipotence when God humbles himself to the taking of human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.

  8. There is great advantage to the preacher in taking up, as did Frederick W.

  9. But, taking in man, we are bound to get our idea of the intelligence and will in nature from the highest type of intelligence and will we know, and that is man's.

  10. The Racovian Catechism, taking its name from the Polish town Racow, contains the most succinct exposition of their views.

  11. There was a limitation connected with Christ's taking of human flesh: Phil.

  12. There is ever a higher thought possible, until we see God taking the world upon his heart, entering into the fellowship of our sorrow, and becoming the supreme burden bearer and leader in self-sacrifice.

  13. Two Formosan savages divide five pieces between them by taking two apiece and throwing one away.

  14. He is the God who brought in a flood upon the world of the ungodly; who rained down fire and brimstone from heaven; and who is to come in 'flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God' and obey not the gospel of his son.

  15. This will ensure that taking the country as a whole the budgets will represent every day conditions and avoid anything exceptional.

  16. Simplicity is a childlike ingenuousness which is encountered when it is not expected; and it is for this very reason that, taking the word in its strictest sense, simplicity could not be attributed to childhood properly speaking.

  17. You accidentally dropped it in taking out your purse, and I seized an opportunity, when no one noticed me, to cover it with my foot.

  18. Taking the PAGE by the hand, and leading him aside.

  19. Look," said he, "how many poor devils make their fortunes by one great man taking a whim into his head.

  20. Our contemplative faculties hold to the manner in which the object appears to them, without taking heed to its logical constitution.

  21. Advancing to the table hastily, and taking the pen.

  22. Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the parlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited.

  23. They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

  24. And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.

  25. Taking a deliberate and cool aim at her shoulder, I pulled the trigger; but, alas!

  26. You never can convince the people, that the statutory sin is a moral one; or that, in taking for their own sustenance that which avowedly belongs to no one, they are acting in opposition to a just or a salutary law.

  27. Ernest de Lucenay; taking good care, however, this time, that the ebullition of his feelings was not loud enough to reach the ears of the retreating peasant.

  28. Taking the one to the right, the young men had full leisure to observe the splendour that surrounded them, as they slowly followed their conductor from one long line of magnificent rooms into another.

  29. Taking the two populations together, or rather considering them as one, which no doubt they originally were, they are at the bottom of the physiological scale of this country.

  30. Now came the able generalship of my keeper, who seeing that they were inclined to feed at the other end of the loch, began to drive them towards me, at the same time taking great care not to alarm them enough to make them take flight.

  31. Taking colour from the skies, Can heaven's truth be wanting?

  32. He is, moreover, a sly and timid creature, without the impudence of the seal, who will think nothing of swimming into the nets, and actually taking out the salmon before the eyes of the fishermen.

  33. He trailed their course with his lips and tongue, taking tiny nips at one breast, then the other.

  34. A bigger-picture metaphor that goes beyond what's already out there, taking this whole business to not just the next possible step, but two or three steps ahead.

  35. She quickly and nervously glanced around the room as she went inside, taking in at once its simple furnishings and his things.

  36. He imagined taking his computer with him for walks in the woods, telling the computer about the things he saw, and what he thought.

  37. I have thought how good it would be to go back to France after my project is through here, taking my meager savings, and my meager arm, and finding a small ranch in the country.

  38. I'd better be going," Greta said after some time had passed, taking Might Boy's bridle in her hand.

  39. The sensation was overwhelming, this feeling of taking in her whole image.

  40. Her eyes went to Jean-Pierre for a moment, taking him in from head to toe, his boots.

  41. Oh, there it is," she said, taking the chain in her hand and holding it up with a glad smile on her face.

  42. I remember they were taking Matthew's picture just a few feet away.

  43. You're a real risk-taker, but not for the sake of taking risks.

  44. Taking his index finger, she lightly poked her taut belly in an attempt to make light of the situation.

  45. And of course, William reminded himself, suddenly taking down his fear a few notches, the largest obstacle Jones would confront was Jones himself.

  46. I'm taking you to the Maine house for a little while.

  47. He put his arm round the child, and, taking his laced handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the blood from the sore lips.

  48. Perhaps, after all, Roland was dead at Roncesvalles, Charlemagne buried, and all the peers perished, taking chivalry with them to their graves.

  49. Do you imagine that you will better yourself by taking this story to Versailles?

  50. You must act by your own--I will not humiliate you by insisting on your taking any sacrifice.

  51. The only thing that kept him from proudly taking his leave was the conviction that both Carola and the Duke had been quite innocent of planning the situation, she being ignorant that M.

  52. Caumont was now in Paris, and Luc went to see him, taking the eulogy written on his son, Hippolyte de Seytres.

  53. He unfastened the lantern from the wagon and, taking it in his left hand, offered the right to the Countess.

  54. The young man moved suddenly, looped the curtain yet farther back, and pulled his chair round so that the light fell over his face; it was like taking a mask from his features, so suddenly were countenance and personality revealed.

  55. You must not say that,” he said, taking her by the shoulders very gently.

  56. Your grandmother was betrothed to my elder brother once, Mademoiselle Clémence,” he said, taking up his broken talk after a pause.

  57. Armand, who had seated himself on the corner of the table and was taking his supper with good appetite.

  58. The sound moved something in him, and taking out a piece of paper, he began to scribble on it with a pencil.

  59. After taking her elderly cousin across, Fleur did not land at once, but pulled in among the reeds, into the sunshine.

  60. Taking his letters he went up to his dressing-room to cleanse himself of London.

  61. He watched the fencing of their eyes, taking each other in--the two beings he loved most in the world.

  62. He's taking after his father, I'm afraid.

  63. And stirred, tormented by that vision of Youth taking things hard, Jolyon got out of his chair, and went to the window.

  64. In a kind of stupefaction Soames looked from one to the other; then, taking up hat and umbrella, which he had put down on a chair, he walked towards the curtains.

  65. His recalcitrance--she said--was a symptom of his whole attitude; he was taking it lying down.

  66. She was taking Profond's defection with curious quietude; or was his "small" voyage just a blind?

  67. Smither was still taking the air in the doorway.

  68. Winifred, concerned; "you're not taking this to heart?

  69. If one's nerves did not flutter, she was taking the line of least resistance, and knew that nobleness was not obliging her.

  70. I know that, but I did not like the thought of taking such a frightful disadvantage of an enemy.

  71. Taking advantage of the illumination, six or eight of the Wyandots fired at the loopholes thus made visible; but the garrison knew the danger and kept out of range.

  72. It looked as if the scout Jo Stinger deliberately invited this manner of his taking off, in preference to torture by flame, or at the hands of his dusky enemies.

  73. I must say I cannot see the necessity of his taking such terrible risks, when your help, although very welcome, was not so all important that our lives depended on it.

  74. The Assembly Investigating Committee of 1873 referred carelessly to the English stockholders as being "impatient at the law's delay" and therefore taking matters into their own hands.

  75. When the act of 1864 was passed, Congress plausibly pointed out the wise, precautionary measures it was taking to insure the honest disbursements of the Government's appropriations.

  76. A hint quickly reached them; they thereupon fled to Jersey City out of Barnard's jurisdiction, taking their cargo of loot with them.

  77. Cabin passengers fared better; they were given the opportunity of taking to the life-boats in cases where there was sufficient warning, time and room.

  78. But this unending havoc, taking place silently in the routine departments of industry, and in obscure alleyways, called forth little or no notice.

  79. The soldiery summarily stopped the strikers from picketing, that is to say, from attempting to persuade strikebreakers to refrain from taking their places.

  80. His loan remaining unpaid, Drew indemnified himself by taking over, in 1857, by foreclosure, the control of the Erie Railroad.

  81. This poem certainly refers to the taking of the murderers of James I.

  82. Serious labor conditions have confronted us before, and it is exceedingly rare to find the native land owning white farmer, who has been accustomed to employ negro labor, taking the negro's place when the negro leaves his neighborhood.

  83. Henry Adams, traveling throughout the State and taking note of crime committed against negroes, said that 683 colored men were whipped, maimed or murdered within eleven years.

  84. It is not the rule, but here and there the taking of enormous profits from the labor of the negro is known to exist.

  85. How the South viewed this taking away of a large part of her labor supply was stated in letters to the newspapers and in newspaper editorials.

  86. At the Illinois Central Railroad station in that city, the agent had been having his hands full taking names of colored laborers wanting and waiting to go North.

  87. One was to take over the country and rule it for the benefit of the Zulus, and the other to enforce the demands in Sir Bartle Frere's ultimatum, and, taking such guarantees as circumstances would admit of, leave Cetywayo on the throne.

  88. He was always soaring in the clouds, and, as is natural to one in that elevated position, taking a very different and more sanguine view of affairs to that which men of a more lowly, and perhaps a more practical, turn of mind would do.

  89. As a matter of fact, sad as it may appear, the Zulu women are much attached to the custom, nor would they, as a general rule, consent to marry a man who only purposed taking one wife.

  90. Shepstone, who had hitherto favoured the Zulu claims, taking the Boer side of the controversy, after examination of the locality and of persons acquainted with the details of the matter.

  91. Such shooting as the English soldier is capable of may be very well when he has an army to aim at, but it is useless in guerilla warfare against a foe skilled in the use of the rifle and the art of taking shelter.

  92. Her Majesty's Government are taking active steps to re-establish a system of extradition, in pursuance of Article 29, of the Convention.

  93. All of which is doubtless very savage and very wrong, but such is the depravity of human nature, that there is something taking about it for all that.

  94. As I believe him to have been an honest man, I incline to the latter supposition; nor do I consider it so very hard to account for, taking into consideration his natural Dutch proclivities.

  95. The majority of your Commissioners felt bound to record their opinion that the taking of the lives of these men was an act contrary to the rules of civilised warfare.

  96. Let the English Government be firm, however, and insist on the Boers taking no part in this war, and it will cease--a sure proof that the Boer Government have the power to stop it if they have the will.

  97. Their father was a well-to-do Chinese merchant taking one of his regular trips to China.

  98. In defiance of prejudice, intermarriage between the races in the Pacific is taking place.

  99. Coming and going, the fusion of races, once of a common stock, is taking place.

  100. That is, white folk talk much about the way in which the East is taking to Western ways, and call that progress.

  101. In her own sort of way, China was taking inventory.

  102. Taking her directions, I turned across the village to where she said Setu could be found.

  103. Then I learned of the wedding taking place below.

  104. That navy has by no means matured, it is not and cannot for years to come be a great consideration in the Pacific, but it has been from the start prophetic and explanatory of much that is taking place to-day.

  105. Nobody seemed in any hurry about anything, least of all about taking you in.

  106. Would you mind coming along with me, sir, and taking a picture of a funeral as the mourners come out of church.

  107. For an instant he must have thought he was taking a criminal to confinement.

  108. In his way he was also a Don Juan, for he hovered over the young half-Australian wife of a middle-aged Chinese merchant who was taking her back to China for her confinement.

  109. There was a time when passionate desire justified a man taking a woman from another with the aid of a club.

  110. An old English army captain whose passport confirmed his declaration that he was seventy-three years old, was taking a little run up to Japan.

  111. We caught one one time on a family fishing trip," said one of the girls, taking it for granted that this particular codfish was of the swimming variety, "and we had fried codfish steaks for a week afterward.

  112. You haven't told us yet just why you're taking this tramp in the snow.

  113. The young folks were so taken up in the leave taking that they failed to notice two girls who got on the train just after them.

  114. There you go taking all the fun out of it before we start," she said, and in spite of their consternation the girls had to laugh.

  115. It would have been like taking candy from a kid to have caught up with his old flivver, and then we could have landed him in jail, where he belongs.

  116. Probably 'The Pickles' are taking good care of the little darlings," sneered Laura.

  117. She was as proud of Billie's growing popularity as if it had been herself, but she knew Rose would never stand for the taking of her place by any one.

  118. There was Billie, taking the center of the stage again as usual, and there was Caroline looking after her with a smile.

  119. By this time Gianpaolo and his troops had returned to the Piazza, bent on taking a complete revenge on the conspirators and all enemies of the Baglione family in Perugia.

  120. It is very curious to remember that these peaceful saintly pictures were painted when daily brawls were taking place in the city, even while her chief Piazza streamed with the blood of nobles and Raspanti.

  121. According to his biographers, he hastily rose, and, taking up a bit of cord near at hand, tied it round his waist, as the outward badge of the Order of Poor Brethren.

  122. Taking it from its casket, she was about to hurry with it to the Piazza; she again looked at it.

  123. We see Cain going into a foreign land and taking a wife before there were any women born of his parent stock.

  124. Taking my view of the subject, few, I think, will dispute that the term Christian civilization is a misnomer.

  125. Taking the white race as the standard of beauty, we perceive all the others more or less receding from that model.

  126. Experience taught them to avoid the errors which had occasioned the ruin of the nations whom they had subdued, and put them upon taking measures to prevent surprises, invasions, and the like misfortunes.

  127. Physiologists assert that the human frame is subject to a constant wear and tear, which would soon destroy the whole machine, but for new particles which are continually taking the form and place of the old ones.

  128. He therefore divides all races into these two categories, taking the Chinese as the type of the one and the Hindoos as that of the other.

  129. Those who believe in the abstract superiority of any governmental theory, may be compared to the tailor who would finish some beau-ideal of a coat, without taking his customer's measure.

  130. Deepe, pesibly in the monythe of Januarij next before the taking of Fugiers, were in Deepe taken prisoneris wrongfullie undre the umbre of trewis.

  131. The French are stated to have transgressed it first by capturing certain English merchant-men on the sea; and next by taking as prisoners various persons who bore allegiance to the English king.

  132. English taking his part, he was put to death in the year 1450.

  133. A description of the taking of Pont de l'Arche will be found in the Histoire du roy Charles VII.

  134. Upon taking view of the river, they agreed upon Picquigny, where the Somme is neither wide nor fordable.

  135. And also before the taking of Fugiers ser Simon Morhier knight, the provost of Paris, a lorde also of youre partie and chief of the Kingis counceile, take prisoner by Deepe and paieng a grete raunson or he was deliverid.

  136. I heard her say: "Where are you taking her?

  137. I had repulsed her advances, and now I was taking father away.

  138. Well, you met, as you know, and he carried off everything with a high hand, and insisted on taking you away with him, and insisted further on marrying Lady Helen Dalrymple.

  139. Gordon," she said, without taking the least notice of me, "may I venture to inquire the exact age of this little spitfire?

  140. I am taking you to her to-morrow, and you must learn to love her as though she were your mother.

  141. Then my father came up to me, made a low bow, and, taking my hand, raised it to his lips.

  142. Perhaps I have been selfish in taking him from you, Anita.

  143. Francisco noticed two men, who were less grimy in appearance and who sat quietly side by side, taking no part in the conversation.

  144. Francisco hurried into his clothes and found the Colonel taking his coffee and rolls in a shaded corner of the patio.

  145. Francisco was alert, his brown eyes taking in every detail of the stirring busy scene; but Elena's hungry eyes looked past this to the water beyond.

  146. I think she is," answered his mother, entering the room, and taking her son into a close embrace.

  147. I have reason to believe that these two horsetail thieves are taking shelter with some charcoal burners over near the river.

  148. Great quantities of it are raised above here; it is quick of growth and needs only to be planted so," and Jose demonstrated by taking a short twig and sticking it into the earth.

  149. No one can dream what a charm there is in taking care of pets, singing birds, plants, etc.

  150. I never thought of taking an active interest in politics this year, but I could not help it when the fight began.

  151. De Quincey, we remember, surprised his American friends by taking their hands, as it were, and showing them about Boston, so familiar was he with our localities.

  152. His was the life of the poet first of all, and yet the tale of his sympathetic friendliness, and his generosities and care-taking for others will never be fully told.

  153. Daniel Featley; and the reasons of the University of Oxford for not taking (now pleaded to discharge the obligation of) the Solemn League and Covenant.

  154. The unlawfulnesse of subjects taking up armes against their Soveraigne in what case so ever.

  155. Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir Thomas Adams together with the Sheriffs, Aldermen and Common-Councell of the said City: being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw, London.

  156. He dealt much both in the giving and taking of bribes.

  157. Published for the vindication of the truth, and information of the ignorant; likewise for the taking off of those aspersions which are frequently both in Pulpit and Print unjustly cast upon them.

  158. The duke, contrary to law, was restored to the office of high admiral without taking the test.

  159. But Godfrey had given them little or no occasion of offence in taking Oates's evidence.

  160. Though the courtiers could not reject the clause of adhering to the Protestant religion, they proposed, as a necessary mark of respect, that all princes of the blood should be exempted from taking the oath.

  161. Without further reasoning, the cry rose, that he had been assassinated by the Papists, on account of his taking Oates's evidence.

  162. He added, that some discourse had been entered into about taking a survey of the guards; and he thought that Monmouth, Grey, and Armstrong undertook to view them.

  163. Besides taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and receiving the sacrament in the established church, they were obliged to abjure all belief in the doctrine of transubstantiation.

  164. Spencer's "Ethics" is a most vital and original piece of attitude-taking in the world of ideals.

  165. Then Snap rolled about on the lawn, Freddie and Flossie taking turns sprinkling.

  166. And he did, first taking Flossie, and then Freddie.

  167. Mrs. Bobbsey put up two baskets for her children, Nan taking one and Bert the other.

  168. He made his way to the cooler without accident, and then, moving slowly, taking hold of the seat on the way back, so as not to spill the water, he brought the silver cup brimful to the fat lady.

  169. Taking courage, the girls went up to look.

  170. It took Bert some days to look carefully at the coats of the various boys in school, who might have been guilty of taking the cream.

  171. If they had fun going off to the country, taking Snoop with them, of course, they had many more good times on arriving at the farm.


  172. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceptable; acceptance; access; acquisition; admission; adoption; adorable; agreeable; alluring; appealing; appetizing; appropriation; arrest; assumption; attraction; attractive; beguiling; bewitching; captivating; capture; catching; charismatic; charming; communicable; contagious; coquettish; delightful; derivation; desirable; enchanting; endemic; engaging; enthralling; enticing; entrancing; enviable; epidemic; erwhelming; exciting; exotic; exquisite; fall; fascinating; fetching; flirtatious; glamorous; hypnotic; imitation; infectious; infringement; interesting; intriguing; inviting; irresistible; likable; lovable; lovely; luxurious; mesmeric; mocking; pandemic; pestiferous; piquant; plagiarism; pleasing; possession; prepossessing; provocative; rape; ravishment; receipt; reception; seductive; seizure; sensuous; simulation; siren; sporadic; taking; tantalizing; teasing; tempting; theft; thrilling; tickling; titillating; toothsome; unobjectionable; violation; voluptuous; winning; winsome; witching


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    taking advantage; taking away; taking care; taking charge; taking cold; taking food; taking her; taking his; taking hold; taking leave; taking notice; taking occasion; taking office; taking over; taking part; taking place; taking possession; taking snuff; taking the; taking their; taking them