Examples
“_In the seventh year Jehoiada_ sent and took the captains of sent and took the captains of the Carians and runners, strengthened himself and _took the captains_, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.”
“Why, if I was took at all, I should want to be "_took_.”
“That merely implies that he _took him_, went to him and laid his hands upon him, thus connecting the cure with himself, and then released him, set him free, took his hands off him, turning at once to the other guests and justifying himself by appealing to their own righteous conduct towards the ass and the ox.”
“The furnishing of the house Mrs. Bettesworth took upon herself; and Sally _took upon herself_ to find fault with every article that her mother bought.”
“Early on, he leased songs from smaller labels or did one-off sessions in Jackson or Houston, but it was when he discovered J&M Studios in New Orleans and the musicians who worked there that his label took off.”
“The intense, earthy outgrowth of gospel singing was an expression of black culture; the term took hold about the same time as soul food and was followed by political figures who were eager to be said to have soul.”
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“A few weeks before the Rubin incident, another label took her to”
“And in the early twentieth century, with concepts of the unconscious mind much discussed in Europe and the United States, such social uses of the word took a new turn.”
“Gradually the word took on the meaning of causing a delaying action by taking advantage of the senatorial right to speak interminably on any subject without restriction.”
“Through the years, the name took on a different significance.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘took’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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To Find Them All
arwen, eowyn, minas tirith, minas morgul, shelob, aragorn, ent, orc, dwalin, balin, ori, nori and 89 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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ever onward...
being words, terms, names of people and places, and other items from Lord of the Rings, not limited to those which are unique to Middle-Earth, and in no particular order.
hobbit, elf, man, ent, wizard, oliphaunt, nazgul, wraith, dwarf, ithildin, mithril, sindarin and 77 more...
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OM3 Lesson 28
took, forever, stand, until, sold out, briefs, undershirt, ridiculous, close to
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