take shape

Idioms  

1. Also, shape up. Turn out, develop, acquire a distinctive form, as in Her reelection campaign is already taking shape, two years before the election, or Can you tell us how the book is shaping up? The first term dates from the mid-1700s and the variant, originally put as shape out, from about 1600.

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Example Sentences

As parts of these clouds collapse under gravity, they create dense regions known as molecular cloud cores where new stars begin to take shape.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

As the future of quantum computing starts to take shape, there are plenty of ways to play it.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

He began creating a seven-member boy group in 2010, but it took a few years for BTS, as we know it today, to take shape.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The field of candidates did not take shape until the week of the February filing deadline.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

As casual as they strove to seem, they both felt something momentous take shape between them, and—though she didn’t for a minute question his intentions—something intimate, too.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Related Words

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