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Example sentences for "being taken"

  • Art: X being taken up, the word information was transposed & inserted after "Legislature.

  • The clause in the Report "To establish uniform laws on the subject of Bankruptcies" being taken up.

  • And now that she is being taken from me, I feel that I have not prized her half enough.

  • As in most other places, the people were especially interested in our little kodak, and seemed to think the honour of being taken equal to canonisation.

  • Alas, the sacrificial butter of a peaceful Brahmana is being taken away by crows!

  • The wealth of a Brahmana is being taken away by robbers!

  • This is copied (as being taken from 'Boece') in Le Roman de la Rose, l.

  • The great danger of being taken prisoner in Friesland was because the Frieslanders fought so desperately that they were seldom taken prisoners themselves.

  • Thus the peculiar peril of being taken prisoner in Friesland is fully explained.

  • On being taken on board of the Yarmouth, they reported themselves as having belonged to the Randolph, thirty-two, Captain Biddle, blown up in an action with an English frigate on the night of the 7th.

  • Mexia was unfortunate, and, being taken prisoner, was almost instantly shot.

  • I felt completely happy; there was no longer any fear of my being taken back to the farm.

  • Better still, they could be pulled out more easily, and without the necessity of being taken out of their envelopes.

  • I was fearful, therefore, that this might be an obstacle to my being taken as a boy-sailor; for I had really made up my mind to offer myself as such on board the Inca.

  • I fainted at length under the torture, and on being taken down, my shoes contained blood which ran from the gashes in my back.

  • I heard the guards patrolling the town cry the hour of twelve; and fearful of being taken up, I turned out of the main street, and got upon the road leading to Petersburg.

  • He was not in danger of being taken up, imprisoned, and sold for his jail fees, as a returning Onesimus would be in parts of this nation.

  • It was amusing to see my brother's despair and rage at being taken for an idiot, and when he endeavoured to say something to spew that he was not one, she only thought him more idiotic than ever.

  • If anything is astonishing, no matter how extravagant it may be, the crowd is sure to welcome it greedily, for anyone would be afraid of being taken for a fool if he should exclaim, "It is impossible!

  • The silk, on being taken out of this bath, must be wrung well, and stretched upon perches to dry; after which it is introduced into the sulphuring chamber, if it is to be made use of in the white state.

  • On being taken out of the bath, the silk is to be washed and dried in the shade.

  • By the dissipation of the water, and careful agitation of the pap, an uniform doughy mass is obtained; which, being taken out of the trough, is cut into cubical lumps.

  • The pulp of the middle ribs of Coleworts boiled in almond milk, and made up into an electuary with honey, being taken often, is very profitable for those that are puffy and short winded.

  • But the risk of being taken by your enemies, still remains with you, according to the declaration rendered incontestable by the measures I shall take by your deputy himself.

  • Moreover, the despatches were ordered to be thrown overboard if the vessel conveying them should be pursued by an enemy, or exposed to the hazard of being taken.

  • The dread of being taken for a fool is the source of the coxcomb's bragging so common in France; for in France to have the reputation of a fool is to be a foreigner in one's own country.

  • But you must pardon a man of spirit if he feels humiliated at being taken for a spaniel.

  • He had a sort of certitude of being taken to the Rue Saint-Lazare, and being brought to a halt at the little gate in the garden of the Hotel San-Real.

  • I insist on being taken to a platform--I'm not going to break my leg getting out here.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being taken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being alone; being bent; being brought; being considered; being contrary; being destroyed; being dissolved; being driven; being either; being exposed; being full; being generally; being heard; being invited; being killed; being now; being ready; being separated; being slain; being suspended; being told; being under; being written; cold alcohol; dual personality; spiritual sense