How To Use Take hold In A Sentence
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He snuffled, dark hair damp against my neck, his mouth rooting to take hold of my collarbone.
Brush of Darkness
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And even if inflation does now take hold, there is plenty of scope to let the rupiah rise.
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All the evidence is that policymakers will do virtually anything rather than see a deflationary spiral take hold.
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It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
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Normally, as the economy overheats inflation begins to take hold.
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Einstein still enjoyed himself even when real illness did take hold.
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All the evidence is that policymakers will do virtually anything rather than see a deflationary spiral take hold.
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This encourages other bacteria to take hold, then termites discover the soft wood, further adding to the damage.
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Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
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The urge to bake another pie began to take hold in the village towards the end of 1985.
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Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances.
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(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
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Is deflation likely to take hold now?
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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Democratic reforms are beginning to take hold in this fledgling republic.
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The fever was beginning to take hold.
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I suggest you root out those weeds before they take hold.
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As the autumnal weather begins to take hold, skipping abroad to make use of friends with second-home benefits sounds like the perfect antidote.
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A medfly plague would be even worse: if Mediterranean fruit flies were to take hold in California and continental America, it is estimated that they would cause 1.5 billion dollars in damages annually.
The Fruit Hunters
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This enabled an offsetting process to take hold.
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Andrea miscarried on her first attempt and the second attempt didn't take hold.
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The richer prelife became, the more likely it was that an outbreak of life would take hold.
SuperCooperators
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With injuries starting to take hold, do you see him repeating his title triumph?
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The snare is broken; They could not take hold of his words before the people.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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All the evidence is that policymakers will do virtually anything rather than see a deflationary spiral take hold.
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This will include using the various stake holders and using incendiaries from aircraft, and existing roads and tracks to break up the country at a bigger scale.
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Instead of the intensely supercharged work experience I was expecting, I was invited to relax, sit back, let the weekend take hold and just be.
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The chord progression itself sounds like a Dimmu Borgir outtake, which is very effective here, as it gives the lyrics room to breathe and take hold, rather than crash down like an avalanche; the listener has time to digest the themes and overlaid messages.
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I should not allow such a thought to take hold on me.
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It is by no means certain, however, that a ceasefire will lead to renewal of the peace process - or even take hold.
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The good-natured teacher's high hopes of ending the term prosperously were thus suddenly crushed and he was about to give up in disgust when the better disposed pupils offered to take hold and repair the damage so far as possible and clean out the school room for the exercises, which they did.
Living in Dryden: February 2004 Archives
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And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
CHAPTER VIII
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Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Garrison Keillor
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So the moments in my life which I call blessings and gladness, and the moments in my life which I call sorrows and tortures, may work into each other, and they will do so if I take hold of them rightly, and use them as they ought to be used.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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The workshops and manufactories became breeding grounds for radical ideas to take hold.
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Christ crucified is the power of God (1 Cor.i. 24); let him by a lively faith take hold of him, as a man that is sinking catches hold of a bough, or cord, or plank, that is within his reach, or as the malefactor took hold of the horns of the altar, believing that there is no other name by which he can be saved, by which he can be reconciled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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holpen" denotes properly, to take hold of one, to help him up when he is in danger of falling, and here means that God had succoured his people when they were feeble, and were in danger of falling or being overthrown.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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It can take hold after a cut, allowing bacteria to infect the body 's soft tissue.
The Sun
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Indeed, FCoE will take hold initially at the server access layer and as standards and characteristics of the technology mature -- such as the IETF TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) standard for multihop and multipathing capabilities -- it is expected to be deployed deeper into the core of the data center networks to facilitate the construction of much larger converged fabrics.
HP consolidates, protects data centers
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Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow.
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The urge to bake another pie began to take hold in the village towards the end of 1985.
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Before the blaze could take hold Fisher put it out and then fled from the premises before the police arrived.
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We change our drossy dust for gold, From death to life we fly: We let go shadows, and take hold Of immortality.
The Riches of Bunyan
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-- As he got out the word larvae, a faint sense of the ridiculous seemed to take hold of the Scarabee, and for the first and only time during my acquaintance with him a slight attempt at a smile showed itself on his features.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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It can take hold after a cut, allowing bacteria to infect the body 's soft tissue.
The Sun
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This can reduce symptoms, but permits infections to take hold more readily.
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It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
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Take hold of him by the legs, allowing his head to hang downwards; then give him with the palm of your hand several sharp blows on his back, and you may have the good fortune to see the coin coughed out of his mouth.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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Which is to say, the meme - but, also, its attachments, that which makes it 'take hold', as Althusser defined 'facticity'.
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Upon these un-Lady-like private consultations, whether the window shewed the signa or no; it is no matter belonging to my charge: I say, husbands are unwise, to graunt such ill advantages, and wives much worse, if they take hold of them, onely Judge you the best, and so the Tale is ended.
The Decameron
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What pre-existing thoughts, feelings, values or perceptions paved the way for depression to take hold of you?
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Where timbers are in contact with brickwork which is or might become wet because of weatherproofing defects, there is a risk that wood-rotting fungi will take hold in those timbers.
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Only in their absence can fresh ideas bloom and take hold.
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He had guessed that he had been "on the shikker" that week he stayed away, but he took that as the ordinary thing done by ordinary men -- he himself was past "having a burst," he had no heart for it now; but no young man was any the worse for it if it didn't take hold of him.
Captivity
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Straggly dusk-colored casuarinas, lush pisonias, and coconut palms take hold as the island grows large enough to nourish them.
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There is no way you can tell if a girl is in love with you, except that she looks at you with eyes that are as black as coal, and they seem to burn a hole right into your insides, and when they take hold of your hand they hang on and squeeze like alamand-left in a dance at home, and they snug up to you and are as warm and cheerful as a gas stove.
Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904
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But it was evident from the laboured performance by Carlo Ancelotti's side that the title nerves are beginning to take hold.
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How does the idea take hold that the pronunciation wantin' is sloppier than wanting?
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This enabled an offsetting process to take hold.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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What pre-existing thoughts, feelings, values or perceptions paved the way for depression to take hold of you?
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A combination of two immunosuppressive drugs, cyclophosphamide and fludarabine, was given with the intent to knock out the patient's immune system to allow the foreign donor immune cells to take hold.
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There are usually reasons why some ideas take hold and persist while others fail to do so.
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You don't say when you planted the vines, but if they had not had time to take hold, the dry spring and early summer may have been a factor.
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In soils laid down by ancient seas, blue grama, western wheat grass, and little bluestem thrived where deep tree roots cannot take hold.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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This enabled an offsetting process to take hold.
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One of the greatest services it can render is to take hold of this unusual talent, no matter what its property qualifications or its social condition may be; for wherever talent is found, it should be developed and put to the use of the state.
The Influence of Canadian Universities in Canadian Development
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An important element of the plan is an increased economic and development effort, with a goal of helping stability take hold amid the stepped-up troop presence.
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The bluebells have had centuries to take hold here, and spread a thick blanket of blue beneath the mixed oak, ash and beech.
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One of the first lessons anyone gets is how to take hold of and swing a mallet.
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Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Garrison Keillor
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The urge to bake another pie began to take hold in the village towards the end of 1985.
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In more stable parts of the dune the native Australian Pigface, Carpobrotus glaucescens is able to take hold.
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Only in their absence can fresh ideas bloom and take hold.
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As the autumnal weather begins to take hold, skipping abroad to make use of friends with second-home benefits sounds like the perfect antidote.
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But not on the Helper Hermes did sleep take hold as he sought within his heart how he should guide forth king Priam from the ships unespied of the trusty sentinels.
The Iliad
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While the risk that deflation will take hold of the Western economies is small, it is not trivial.
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In Germany, despite the efforts of the Ottonian and Salian kings, feudalism began to take hold and frustrate efforts to create a German state.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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The only modern pictures that accomplish a higher end than that of pleasing the eye -- the only ones that really take hold of my mind, and with a kind of acerbity, like unripe fruit -- are the works of Hunt, and one or two other painters of the
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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This enabled an offsetting process to take hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the autumnal weather begins to take hold, skipping abroad to make use of friends with second-home benefits sounds like the perfect antidote.
Times, Sunday Times
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Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only way to unlock the evil powers of Bos Kreuz was to let the evil and darkness of the sword corrupt you and let it take hold of your soul.
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In California, many of the leading physicians were outwardly hostile to an over-emphasis on germs as the causative factor in disease, and such theories were even slower to take hold among popular writers.
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Then, a second skewer comes in handy for gently firming the soil to help the seedling stand up until the roots take hold.
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As market forces take hold and dynamize the economy of any society, the population is increasingly seen, and felt, to be a resource rather than a ‘problem’.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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Wind power, which is completely renewable, abundant, and economical, has begun to take hold in Ontario.
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I suggest you root out those weeds before they take hold.
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Lyn Gardner: The panto season is starting to take hold in theatreland, but there's still a last chance to see some heavyweight drama
Potted Panto – review
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Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
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Take hold of the slide by one corner and pour on to it a sufficient quantity of the balsam and benzole to cover it.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
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As with many eastern national forests, the government bought these tracts from private owners, hoping that in time a new forest would take hold to protect the headwaters of eastern rivers.
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Affectionate birthday greetings.Birthday means a new beginning and a new chance to take hold on life.
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She was determined not to let the illness take hold again.
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Software used in teams usually fails to take hold, because it requires everyone on the team to change the way they work simultaneously, something which anthropologists will tell you is vanishingly unlikely.
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To ensure the safety of the contents inside, the label applicator lightly press down on the product just enough for the sticker to take hold.
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All the evidence is that policymakers will do virtually anything rather than see a deflationary spiral take hold.
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As the boat listed heavily, panic began to take hold.
