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Sentence count:213+7Posted:2017-08-21Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: takenbetakentake notepartakenmistakentake notesovertakentake note ofMeaning: adj. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. 
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121. A new director has taken up his post at the State Hermitage.
122. The day is taken up with trying to control the child rather than having fun.
123. They have even taken up conversations for the other when some one mistook Kato for Wasswa or vice versa.
124. He's been presenting awards aimed at encouraging safety at work, a challenge taken up in Oxfordshire's old folks homes.
125. What if the employers' job offers are not taken up by the students?
126. These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons.
127. About a third to a half the usable space in any private house is taken up by special rooms devoted to sleeping.
128. I said I thought a great deal of time was taken up with Committees.
129. The rest of his time was taken up with a slide show with commentary.
130. Arguments or wars had, some group of statisticians had calculated, taken up to 89.7% of our lives.
131. After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining.
132. She had lately taken up embroidery and was making, as her first effort, a floral tapestry cover for a footstool.
133. A number of demands which were to be raised by the civil rights movement were taken up by the manifesto.
134. Every road, every lane, even the narrowest of alleys was taken up with stalls.
135. This is a challenge which I and my colleague John Davis have already taken up.
136. This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley's leadership style.
137. Nowadays, much the greater part of the legislative programme of the two Houses is taken up by Public Bills.
138. He retired from the sea at the age of 36, having taken up a career with the brush.
139. This time is taken up with the conventional homeroom topics: announcements and the like.
140. Labour, for instance,[sentencedict.com] had taken up Britain's role East of Suez in 1964 with no little enthusiasm.
141. I put a trimmed log in its place, to be taken up by the stair.
142. A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey, but the offer was not taken up.
143. Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales, double the amount in the same period last year.
144. The theme of the medicalisation of life was subsequently taken up by a number of other writers.
145. A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners' wives were obliged to do.
146. Much of the information system would unfortunately be taken up with information about the assortment of opening hours of individual bureaux.
147. After a while I said I'd taken up enough of his time, and should see him at the funeral.
148. I did consult with many other people; my thanks to all of them even if their suggestions could not be taken up.
149. A soccer player and runner in high school,[www.Sentencedict.com] he had taken up outrigger canoeing before the accident.
150. The first week of the trial was taken up with jury selection.
More similar words: takenbetakentake notepartakenmistakentake notesovertakentake note oftake noticemistakenlyundertakentake no noticetake notice oftake no notice oftaken for grantedif I am not mistakenopen upfreshen uploosen upsmarten uplighten uptighten upprenuptialtake the cakemake a mistakestraighten upawakenkrakenshakenweaken
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