Examples of 'took up' in a sentence
Meaning of "took up"
took up: To begin or start doing something, to undertake a task or responsibility
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- simple past tense of take up
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took up
I am afraid they all took up vows of silence.
She took up where they left off.
I dropped my bag and took up a fighting stance.
He took up jobs not suited for him.
Some little kids took up some money.
You took up all the room in my bed.
Antiphon was a statesman who took up rhetoric as a profession.
I took up with your mother for a reason.
A routine that took up every daylight hour.
I took up this assignment only because of you.
All operations he took up till date are failures.
He took up ice dancing at the age of twelve.
After his defeat he took up an interest in mining.
She took up a role as his secretary instead.
Metherell never took up the offered job.
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He took up his pen and began to write.
When he returned he took up the art of engraving.
She took up with a more exciting fellow.
I remember when you took up that collection.
He soon took up various positions in the organisation.
I think you knew it when you took up.
Her mother took up with another guy.
She wanted to be strong and took up taekwondo.
Two beds took up half the room.
A man who mastered any subject he took up.
We just took up by the river one day.
There was war because men took up arms.
I know that took up a lot of your time.
He established himself there and took up piracy.
The man took up with his wife.
I did not know that stars took up collections.
And took up again with the man.
Kritsky rose and took up his hat.
They took up the whole working lunch.
The folks back home took up a collection.
We took up arms and drove them out.
And a few of us took up our old skates.
We took up our swords at the same time.
Just think if they took up the knif e.
He took up the art in his old age.
Looks like somebody just took up shooting.
Afterwards he took up again the study of theology.
I was getting tired of all the time he took up.
For a while he took up banditry in the mountains.
But before reverend harper took up theology.
Dylan practically took up residence in my hospital room.
Took up tapping when he got his bald spot.
I knew she took up with another guy.
Took up the whole abdominal cavity.
And since she took up residence on my face.
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