Examples of 'took exception' in a sentence

Meaning of "took exception"

took exception: To disagree or challenge something, often to express strong disapproval or objection. This phrase is commonly used in situations where someone is expressing their disagreement with a statement, decision, or action taken by another person or group
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How to use "took exception" in a sentence

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took exception
Some people took exception to the win.
Took exception to my beliefs.
They would kill us if they took exception to us.
He took exception to a report she wrote.
I understand you took exception to a report.
He took exception to changing the locks.
Romney repeatedly took exception.
India took exception to this remark.
OoooThe third member of the trio took exception.
The client took exception to my race.
But many conservative Catholics took exception.
Maybe you took exception to that.
I pointed this out to Mr James and Mr James took exception to it.
The hospital took exception to that.
It took exception to that and would continue to make principled textual and policy interventions.

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Whitman took exception.
I took exception to them, very strong exception.
One of the early critiquers took exception to my descriptions of Scotland.
I took exception to them.
And one of the airmen took exception I am afraid.
Others took exception to the grittiness of the writing.
But Johnny took exception.
A man took exception to my text and began berating us loudly.
Well, someone inside this prison took exception to that.
His wife took exception to that.
I mean, he might have given the odd bad review that some restauranteur took exception to.
The confederates took exception to my capacity for killing them.
Andreasen, a conservative Adventist theologian, took exception to this statement.
The men took exception to this and became abusive.
And that brother Rupert took exception to it?
They took exception to it.
The guy said something he should not have said, and I took exception to it.
Norwest took exception and.
Took exception to my beliefs. They looked down on me.
Foster took exception.
This was the loss to which the Luddites, understandably if not effectively, took exception.
And he took exception to.
When I said he could not go, he took exception.
They quickly took exception to the importance he seemed to place on class distinction.
Indeed, other prominent teachers of the day also took exception to Funakoshi 's classification.
Scholars also took exception at the selective calls for separating academic research and politics.
When I told him he could not go, he took exception.
Upon his arrival he took exception to a newspaper story written about him.
Unsurprisingly, the army took exception.
Some white students took exception to this and began to yell and threaten him.
According to the manager, she didn't notice him and he took exception.
The Erie took exception to this and tore up the crossing.
I remember my father did, but Mother took exception to that, too.
Network took exception with DSS comments and replied to them in writing.
Not sure why you took exception to it….

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