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Example sentences for: taken

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"If Robert James Waller had taken an Oxford degree or Danielle Steel had read classics at the Sorbonne, this is the sort of book they might write," says Walter Kirn in the New York Times Book Review . (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)
If you are feeling faint of heart about leveling with your chum, simply refuse to convene at the house that the cats have taken over.
He was remembered as one of football's funniest and most generous players, and his nickname, Sweetness, "was a tribute to his personality more than his running style" ( ESPN ). Chicago Bears Assistant Coach Fred O'Connor, who believed Payton was destined to be a legend from the outset, said, "God must have taken a chisel and said, 'I'm going to make me a halfback.
And, pursuant to the President's instructions I gave authorization for them to be taken out.
"A classified ad must be taken out in the Village Voice ."-- Matt Sullivan