betook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother.
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
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
Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions.
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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