betook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
From the Vatican, Mr. Levine betook himself the next day to a 15-minute audience with Benito Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
So last week, to discuss this necessary monster, mayors, professors, doctors, businessmen betook themselves to St. Louis, to the 32d annual convention of the National Municipal League.
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
Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay.
From Time Magazine Archive
When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
