Example sentences for: double-take

How can you use “double-take” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take:

  • Peter's going to have to do a double-take when I get there, but I'm hoping to squeak by," he reportedly said.

  • I admit I did a double-take when I read that a New Jersey Nets basketball player, accused of rape, said his involvement with the woman never got beyond conversating.


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