Example sentences for: takeover

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

  • (Any oil price increase caused by Iraq's takeover, he claimed, would help the United States by hurting Europe and Japan.)

  • 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.

  • The hall, begun in the reign of Emperor Tiberius following the Roman takeover, has pleasing proportions and the interior is decorated with reliefs depicting Roman emperors dressed in Pharaoh’s garb and worshipping Knum.

  • The Good Housekeeping et al. takeover of the Chronicle and the presumed sickness-unto-death of the Examiner has touched off an orgy of retrospectives in both papers, complete with fond remembrances of the way things were in the good old days.

  • The Egyptian government's objection to the impending FBI takeover of the EgyptAir 990 investigation--plus the mounting evidence that a co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane--leads at the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times (the Wall Street Journal also fronts a long article).


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