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Example sentences for "take away"

  • But it sufficeth me to say, that they did seek to take away my life.

  • Nephi 5:2 2 But behold, their anger did increase against me, insomuch that they did seek to take away my life.

  • To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.

  • To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

  • To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave.

  • I begged of thee in God's name not to take away my life, and thou didst reject my prayers; I am obliged to treat thee in the same manner.

  • Come, take away then," said the Barmecide, "and bring the fruit.

  • You see that Khaujeh Houssain sought your friendship with a treacherous design to take away my life; and, if he had succeeded, there is no doubt but he would have sacrificed you also to his revenge.

  • When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge: 24:11.

  • But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.

  • While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

  • Mac 8:30 Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think to meet to add or diminish any thing, they may do it at their pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be ratified.

  • Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence.

  • Sir 7:6 Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.

  • Jesus, Saviour with us stay, Nor suffer us to perish; All our sins O take away, Us dying, cheer and cherish.

  • Holy Spirit, with us stay, Nor suffer us to perish; All our sins O take away, Us dying, cheer and cherish.

  • For charity alone suffices to take away sin, according to Prov.

  • When thou shalt demand of thy neighbor any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge"; and again (Deut.

  • Take away these, and they would be on a level with other people.

  • I have a right to nothing, which another has a right to take away; and Congress will have a right to take away trials by jury in all civil cases.

  • If we take away from it the special condition of our sensibility, the conception of time also vanishes; and it inheres not in the objects themselves, but solely in the subject (or mind) which intuites them.

  • A putting down of the one pound notes will soon take away its spa-people.

  • I begged thee, in God's name, not to take away my life, and thou didst reject my prayers; I am obliged to treat you in the same manner.

  • This discourse staggered him: Vizier, says he, thou art in the right; he may be come on purpose to take away my life, which he may easily do by the very smell of some of his drugs.

  • My strength is so far spent that I cannot lift my arm; and if I could, how should I have the heart to take away an innocent man's life, and one I do not know?

  • So having resolved not to take away Scheherazade's life that day, he rose and went to prayers, and then called his council.

  • Is it not enough that he is accused of a design against your life to authorize you to take away his?

  • In some Cases, where the Pain was sharp, attended with a Fever, we were obliged to take away more or less Blood; and sometimes also to apply a Blister to that Part of the Abdomen where the Patient felt most Pain.

  • Take away my first letter, take away my second letter, take away all my letters and I am still the same.

  • The order of the day began with a very impressive lesson of the inadequacy of the blood of beasts to take away sin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take away" 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:
    might lead; take account; take advantage; take care; take effect; take heed; take her; take him; take home; take keer; take leave; take much; take office; take pictures; take refuge; take root; take some; take thee; take upon; taken aback; taken advantage; taken away; taken down from the; taken from the fire; takes away; takes occasion