Example Sentences

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She partakes of birding to be near him and attract his sympathetic interest.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023

The new movie partakes of that same sense of damage, regret and reconciliation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

The latest research adds on to exciting global research around dogs and language, like the study Bunny the Talking Dog partakes in, as Salon has previously reported.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2022

Then, in a scene that borders on the surreal, Anna partakes in a ritual that releases her from the past, resulting in a kind of rebirth.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Batista going first to Rome and thence to Venice, where he formed a style which partakes most of the younger Palma, united to an evident imitation of Raffaello.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio