in-a-sentence.com, use taken in a sentence

Use taken in a sentence

Sentences starting with taken

Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
Taken aback in spite of his anger, he stared at her. [11]
Taken sentence by sentence it asserts nothing against anybody or in favor of anybody, pleads for nobody, accuses nobody. [5]
Taken in any other sense than a joke, they were both insulting and degrading, and made her face burn when she thought of them. [9]
Taken together they make a character which would have fared harshly at the hands of history if its owner had had the ill luck to miss martyrdom. [5]
Taken in the lump, they are very hard reading. [6]
Taken detail by detail, it is as innocent as moonshine. [5]
Taken separately, and as they were spoken, his words might not be very significant, but pieced together, arranged, and interpreted through even scant knowledge of circumstances, they were sufficient to give me a key to difficulties which, afterwards, were to cause much distress. [11]
Taken by itself, "Head of the army," is no more important than "Head of the police. [5]

Sentences ending with taken

What measures have you taken? [5]
Quebec is not yet taken? [11]
Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
I was present when you mounted your guns and manned your fleets for the war of 1812--when the South fired upon Sumter--when Richmond fell--when the President's life was taken. [5]
I remember well when it was taken. [9]
Several times the watchers heard muffled sobs from the dark room where she lay at St. Denis, and many times the grieving words, "It could have been taken!--it could have been taken! [5]
Indeed his credit was injured instead of helped by the prudent step be had taken. [5]
While Don Luis was helping Barbara into the chair, she asked in a low tone what she was to think of this act of violence, and where she was being taken. [10]
Still, his plan was a bold one; Caracalla had been deeply offended by the scornful tone of the attacks on him, and Melissa's brother was perhaps the only one of the scoffers who had been taken. [10]
Virginia, on the verge of leaving, stayed on, fascinated by the turn the argument had taken. [9]

Short sentences using taken

Plotinus has taken the plague! [10]
Was the fort taken? [9]
The vote was taken. [9]
He must be taken. [11]
Two collections were taken up. [4]
He had been taken unawares. [11]
Was ever stronghold taken thus? [9]
So I was taken there. [10]
He was not taken aback. [11]
You have taken no trouble. [10]

Sentences containing taken two or more times

And if more were taken because of annexation, still there would be just so many the fewer left where they were taken from. [7]
It is perfectly true that she did not quite realise that he had taken her hand--that he had taken her hand. [11]
With less responsibility taken, there would be less trouble, national and international--that was his point of view; that had been his view long ago at the meeting at Heddington; and his weak chief had taken it, knowing nothing of the personal elements behind. [11]
Therefore, everybody had taken the pledge; there wasn't anybody for miles and miles around that had not taken the pledge. [5]
He can't be taken seriously, and plainly he has never taken any one else so. [9]
The Government has taken away the romance of our calling; the Company has taken away its state and dignity. [5]
Fielding Bey, the skipper, had not taken his little daughter, for he had none; but he had taken little Dicky Donovan, who had been in at least three departments of the Government, with advantage to all. [11]
When your chairman said it was the first time he had ever taken the chair, he did not mean that he had not taken lots of other things; he attended my first lecture and took notes. [5]
As they were pretty certain of the road he must have taken, however, and kept on at a great pace, they came up with him, at the very moment when he had taken breath, and was breaking into a run again. [12]
One told how he had taken a life, another had taken two, a third had set a house on fire, while another had simply been a vagrant and had done nothing. [2]

More example sentences with the word taken in them

As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
If it is your viscera, you cannot have them taken out and reorganized a moment too soon. [5]
He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
He'd have taken you, of course. [11]
The consequences for you, I mean, which you do not seem to have taken into account. [9]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
Well, why haven't you taken one? [2]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
I am talking, you know, as a poet; I do not say I deserve the name, but I have taken it, and if you consider me at all it must be in that aspect. [6]
Good-by, sir, good-by; you have taken a great load off my mind. [5]
I suppose that you have done me this kindness in connection with the action of the Baltimore convention, which has recently taken place, and with which, of course, I am very well satisfied. [7]
Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
I had not yet taken it when I last questioned the fortune-tellers of the sky. [10]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
For three long years have I taken patience and with a right good will. [10]
In a letter written when he was only thirty-one, to his uncle, Lord Burleigh, he said, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province. [5]
Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
When, as thou wouldst say, thou hast sinned, hast taken a man's life, then thou wilt understand. [11]
The wordy war would not have ended so quickly, however, had not restlessness and alarm taken possession of the crowd. [10]
He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. [2]
Nevertheless no one would have taken them to be even distantly related; their countenances were so infinitely unlike in expression. [10]
Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
But when he would have taken it away, the little hand still clung, though the eyes were scarce opened upon life. [11]
And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
And in its worst form, too; for it was not a tax upon what the miner had taken out, but upon what he was going to take out--if he could find it. [5]
Even the most worldly-minded of her friends would have taken such an impeachment ill. [10]
It occasioned a world of merriment, and was taken in excellent part. [4]
Captive in a world bounded by a man's will, she simply did not begin to understand this strange and overpowering creature who had taken possession of her body, mind and soul. [11]
And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. [7]
Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
You've been a wonder, the way you've caught on and taken things off my shoulders. [9]
The arguments against woman suffrage have always taken the easy form of prophecy. [5]
Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off, and the entire machine was out of service. [5]
All was well with the younger orphans; they were often taken to see Selene, and spoke with affection of their new parents. [10]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
I have camped with the Indians; I have been on the warpath with them, taken part in the chase with them--for grasshoppers; helped them steal cattle; I have roamed with them, scalped them, had them for breakfast. [5]
Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
He is taken with her too. [6]
He was taken with her in a certain' measure, in a certain way; the question was in what measure, in what way. [8]
After an interview with Bigot he was being taken to the common jail. [11]
Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. [2]
He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
I could have wished that you both had taken longer to reflect, but I hope with all my heart that you will be happy. [9]
At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
The young theologian willingly submitted, after confessing to his foster-father how strongly love for Barbara had taken possession of him. [10]
Mr. Bentley would willingly have taken all Dalton Street. [9]
Its hidden motive will illustrate a but-little considered fact in human nature; that the religious folly you are born in you will die in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place meanwhile, and abolished and obliterated it. [5]
I saw General Wilkinson at the far end of the room; his hand was raised, and there was that on his handsome face which might have been taken for a smile, and yet was not a smile. [9]
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. [4]
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards. [10]
These simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. [6]
The priest to whom she was taken was a frequent visitor at the Schurstab house, and she would have died ere she would have confided to him the secret of her heart. [10]
The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
Here was one who might have governed a province and still have been a woman, one who had taken into exile the best of safeguards against misfortune,--humor and an indomitable spirit. [9]
Had the men who hounded her hidden in her grove, taken to the rifle to rid her of Lassiter, her last friend? [13]
That is, we, who have taken time by the forelock, must yield up our good gettings to bad receivers. [11]
The enterprising group who have taken all the best seats in the bow, with the intention of gormandizing the views, exhibit little staying power; either the monotony or the wind drives them into the cabin. [4]
But the divinity who has taken her knows also how to give; and this portrait has preserved for you a part of what you loved. [10]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
It was he who had sent Fouche word concerning Philip's adoption; it was also he who had at last, through his spies, discovered Detricand's presence in the town, and had taken action thereupon. [11]
The carrier's widow, who had long since regained her health in the Beguine House at Schweinau, had been taken into Frau Eysvogel's service. [10]
Mrs. Maturin herself, who had been moved and excited as she gazed at Janet, was taken by surprise. [9]
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. [7]
For a little while, hope made a show of reviving--not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure. [5]
For a little while we are going to gallop through the years as before we have ambled through the days, although the reader's breath may be taken away in the process. [9]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
The bear, from which they fled, had been caught by a brewer's apprentice and taken back to its owner long before. [10]
The caleche in which Prince Andrew was being taken attracted Sonya's attention as it passed the front porch. [2]
The house in which Maurice Kirkwood had taken up his abode was not a very inviting one. [6]
The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
The fervent passion which had taken possession of him was suddenly transformed to hate and scorn. [10]
And the burial which had just taken place? [10]
I asked her whether she had ever taken opium, as the description given of its effects in "Villette" was so exactly like what I had experienced,--vivid and exaggerated presence of objects, of which the outlines were indistinct, or lost in golden mist , etc. [14]
It matters little whether I killed him or not; the law says I did, and the law has taken its toll of me. [11]
On my asking where the model came from, he said it was taken direct from the arm of a deformed person, who had employed one of the Italian moulders to make the cast. [6]
This had remained when the others had been taken out. [11]
In the morning, when she saw what had been done, she would not have the paint removed nor the flag taken down; for, she said, the stripes looked very well, and the other would show that she was always at home. [11]
It was only when he reached home that he learned that the party had taken place the week before. [5]
Carlyle was truthful when calm, but give him Americans enough and bricks enough and he could have taken medals himself. [5]
More than once when Anatole's regiment was stationed at Tver he had taken him from Tver in the evening, brought him to Moscow by daybreak, and driven him back again the next night. [2]
I don't see what he wants to die for, after he's taken so much trouble to live in such poor accommodations as that crooked body of his. [6]
He was wondering what could have taken Tull away. [13]
Since that time what changes have taken place! [6]
Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
Many similar caves were to be found in the holy Fountain, and other anchorites had taken possession of the larger ones among them. [10]
Hardly any passengers were taken, because they not only add weight but they never will 'trim boat. [5]
By mistake we were taken to see the new palace instead, and we used up the last remnant of our spare time there. [5]
The two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. [4]
All these papers were taken from among his manuscripts of different dates. [6]
The following facts were taken by him from the account-books of this publishing firm. [3]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word taken in a sentence? How do you use taken in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word taken? It contains example sentences with the word taken, a sentence example for taken, and taken in sample sentence.