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How to use take in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Take means to get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. Example: “They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.”

Examples of take by meaning

verbTo get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

  • They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
  • I'll take that plate off the table.
  • She took the policeman’s helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.1963, Margery Allingham, “Meeting Point”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 232

verbTo seize or capture.

  • take the guards prisoner
  • After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
  • Provided a few trenches have been dug, such places cannot be taken by infantry, except in overwhelming numbers.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 32

verbTo catch or get possession of (fish or game).

  • took ten catfish in one afternoon

verbTo appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.

  • Billy took her pencil.
  • The County took his land by eminent domain.

verbTo exact.

  • take a toll
  • It is only when we invoke the aid of pain for our self-gratification that she becomes evil and takes her vengeance for the insult done to her by hurling us into misery.1913 November, Rabindranath Tagore, “The Problem of Evil”, in Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...

verbTo capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

  • took the next two tricks
  • took Smith's rook

verbTo receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).

  • took third place
  • The camera takes 35mm film.
  • I'll take questions from the floor later.

verbTo receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.

  • The store doesn't take checks.
  • She wouldn't take any money for her help.
  • Do you take plastic?

More sentences with take

  • This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.From the entry deal
  • The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.From the entry abbot
  • The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.From the entry abbreviated
  • After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.From the entry about
  • It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.From the entry absent-minded
  • The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.From the entry color
  • We owe them a debt of gratitude for taking care of our pets.From the entry debt
  • The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.From the entry zero
  • You can take the number 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.From the entry number
  • She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.From the entry one
  • All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.From the entry three
  • I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.From the entry four
  • I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.From the entry bit
  • The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.From the entry date
  • Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.From the entry world
  • We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.From the entry thou
  • It takes time to acclimatize oneself to the thin air of high mountains.From the entry acclimatize
  • He was about to take a drink from his root beer.From the entry drink
  • See my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive.From the entry baby
  • He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.From the entry stand
  • Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.From the entry bunk

Meaning of take

  1. verb To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  2. verb To seize or capture.
  3. verb To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

Full definition of take

Questions about take in a sentence

How do you use take in a sentence?
Take is used as a verb and noun. For example: “They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.”
What is a short sentence with take?
“take a toll”
What does take mean?
Take means to get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: take (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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