betook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harry Bridges knotted-a brown-and-yellow necktie around his matchstick neck one day and betook himself to San Francisco's federal court.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the close of the Players' Club's The School for Scandal, " America's greatest actress " betook herself to Washington to open a summer vaudeville tour in Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sam Sary sadly crawled away, had his head and eyebrows shaved, and betook himself to a Buddhist monastery.
From Time Magazine Archive
We lunched on a cold collation of duck and mutton shortly after noon; then betook ourselves to the instruments to observe the Transit.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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