Example sentences for: takeover

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

  • James Burke, the head of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, is the brother of Daniel Burke, who, until shortly before the Disney takeover, was the head of Capital Cities/ABC.

  • Mr. Fisher had been charged with insider dealing in shares of Thomson T Line just before a takeover bid for the company.

  • The NYT and Wall Street Journal say that Sprint's chief executive favors a friendly merger with MCI Worldcom (which offered $93 billion); either would make the takeover the largest ever.

  • In the mid-1980s, Maren reports, CARE continued to supply food to Somalia despite mounting evidence that donated goods were being appropriated to further then-President Muhammad Siyad Barre's takeover of parts of neighboring Ethiopia.

  • USAT off-leads British telecom Vodafone Airtouch's failed friendly takeover of German behemoth Mannesmann A.G. for $106.


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