betook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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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
Balding young Mario Vaselli, having already spent millions on a moviemaking enterprise, a pet soccer team and lavish parties for Roman topers at his Frascati vineyards, betook himself to Naples.
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The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself.
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President Herriot, having worn himself out calling for order, put on his silk hat and betook his full-dressed self from the Chamber as a sign that the session was suspended.
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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