Below you will find example sentences with "take steps". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Take Steps in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: steps
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.4 words

Words in this phrase

take steps

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • take can mean: To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. Very common word
  • steps can mean: plural of step. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and must take steps to improve 1× and to take steps to end 1× as they take steps protesting the 1× caregivers can take steps to keep 1× ensure they take steps to protect 1× going to take steps to ensure 1× government must take steps to eliminate 1× government to take steps in controlling 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a group of 1× adesanya therefore urged 1× aip cannot be 1× also check up 1× and while harvard 1× as we spend 1×

Common sentence endings:

a political stand 1× climate change crisis 1× condition if necessary 1× diet and exercise 1× government s debt 1× have affordable housing 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

must 5× government 4× help 3× situation 3× country 3× free 3× ensure 3× towards 2× now 2× get 2× power 2× change 2×

Related phrases

take advantage take care two steps next steps take action must take take pictures take responsibility take breaks

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around steps:

two steps 10× next steps 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

take responsibility take pictures take care take breaks take advantage take action

Just after it in the phrase index:

taken seriously taking advantage taking appropriate taking care taking part talent show

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

take advantage take care take action take pictures take responsibility take breaks

Same ending:

two steps next steps

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "take steps" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and must take steps to improve, and to take steps to end, must, government and help stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with take advantage, take care, two steps, two steps and next steps, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with take steps

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

But caregivers can take steps to keep them safer. (9 words)

I was ready to take a leap and God just wanted me to take steps. (15 words)

As we spend more time outside in the sunshine, it is important we take steps to keep ourselves safe. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Take steps right now as an individual to explore what it means to be a balanced, nurturing person, but one of the steps that I hope you’ll make is to get the word out about the broader picture and help build up more collective power to change things. (49 words)

And while Harvard is affirming academic freedom in the abstract, which is the least they can do, they’re not coming out and saying, we are going to take steps to ensure that people are not penalized because they criticize Israel. (41 words)

He called on the Federal Government to take steps to restructure the country now, warning that if nothing is done in the next few months, the association would have no better choice than to take a political stand. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

A group of parents wants educators to take meaningful steps back into the classroom as they take steps protesting the pace of Stevenson High School’s transition towards more traditional education.

Take steps right now as an individual to explore what it means to be a balanced, nurturing person, but one of the steps that I hope you’ll make is to get the word out about the broader picture and help build up more collective power to change things.

Federal employees must proactively take steps to make their work travel more sustainable under new guidance from the Biden administration, which the White House said would save taxpayer money and help take on the climate change crisis.

I raised alarm, appealing to deaf ears, calling on us to take steps to respond to the situation by doing what our constitution directed us to do, which would include convening a NEC meeting to take decision.

In Friday's ruling, the judges said Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent its troops from committing genocide, punish and must take steps to improve the humanitarian situation.

I was ready to take a leap and God just wanted me to take steps.

He called on the Federal Government to take steps to restructure the country now, warning that if nothing is done in the next few months, the association would have no better choice than to take a political stand.

If we take steps to free individuals locked up for minor drug possession charges and use the money saved to focus on bigger issues, then we take one major step toward reforming the country’s unjust system.

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Gowda has appealed to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani to take up the quota demand issue with the Centre and to “take steps to end fast of Hardik Patel”.

Adesanya, therefore, urged the government to take steps in controlling what happens in the public transport system and not allow hoodlums to dictate what happens in the space.

AIP cannot be prevented, but individuals with a family history of the condition can undergo genetic testing to determine their risk and take steps to manage the condition if necessary.

Also, check up on your physical situation and take steps to get in shape, cleaning up your diet and exercise.

And while Harvard is affirming academic freedom in the abstract, which is the least they can do, they’re not coming out and saying, we are going to take steps to ensure that people are not penalized because they criticize Israel.

As we spend more time outside in the sunshine, it is important we take steps to keep ourselves safe.

Bussin said to restore investor confidence in South Africa the government must take steps to eliminate corruption, reduce red tape and help manage government’s debt.

But caregivers can take steps to keep them safer.

But founder of Design Privacy, attorney at law, Chukwuemeka Cameron, says with the country’s lagging digital security infrastructure, citizens must ensure they take steps to protect their data online.

By coming together as a community, sharing knowledge, and providing free vaccinations, we can take steps towards a rabies-free future.

Developers, mortgage lenders, and local governments can take steps in 2023 to ensure that more people have affordable housing.

Doddridge said the District is not in the business of building homes, but it can take steps to support housing.

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