Wondering how to use Took in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning.

Common word

Took in a sentence

Took | Tooke | Tooker | Tookey | Tookes

Took meaning

  1. simple past of take
  2. past participle of take

Example sentences (20)

But when I took a leap of faith and took some time to myself to travel, I was taking three months off at that point.

Leung really had things his way as he copped five sprint prizes, while John took four and Quame Reddy took the other.

After Nitish took a dramatic two runs, Cummins took his third wicket by having Jasprit Bumrah nick to first slip.

On this pretext, they allegedly took him to a secluded area near their locality, where the incident took place.

In addition, Murphy also took a minute to confess that waiting so long to bring Axel Foley back took its toll.

A total of 13 members took part, and they were led home by Lee Bailey, who took third prize in the M45 class.

However, 85 per cent of the courses took me about two to five months, while about 15 per cent took me weeks.

Athena had a backstage interview but wanted no part of it and took the mic and took control of the segment.

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Garnet took pride as a small business owner and passionately took on auto detailing with Sharper Auto Spa.

However as the Queen took a step back away from her royal duties in her old age, Camilla also took on greater responsibility.

The Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the first frame, but the Huskies took control of the game 4-2 in the bottom of the third inning.

Full restoration took 12 days, although all repairs took almost a month, including resetting 429 poles.

DeMarlo Douglas caught a pass, took two steps, fully brought the ball in, took two more steps and braced himself for Locke's hit.

During a concert which took place in Corran Halls on Saturday night, a group of non-verbal singers of all ages took to the stage.

It wasn’t immediately clear why it took two days for the US to acknowledge it took part in the raid.

In the 4×800 meter relay, Arcanum took first and Franklin Monroe took second in the girls division.

He recently took a flight that took off from the UK, and he had to get this flight at the last minute because of a family emergency.

Obansanjo took over from Abacha, who, sadly, even though the five political parties had said he would rule forever, nature took him.

Scott Lindsell took the win in the opening heat, whilst new HRP points champion, Jamie Sangster took victory in the following races.

Moscow's forces recently took the key city of Avdiivka and villages around it, but they took a large number of losses in the process.

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Common combinations with took

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • took place 43×
  • it took 41×
  • took the 37×
  • and took 25×
  • took to 22×
  • he took 18×
  • they took 15×
  • took over 15×
  • who took 11×
  • that took 11×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "took" in a sentence?
An example: "But when I took a leap of faith and took some time to myself to travel, I was taking three months off at that point." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "took" from real English texts.
What does "took" mean?
Took means: simple past of take
How many example sentences with "took" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "took", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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