take to
to make for; flee to: to take to the hills
to form a liking for, esp after a short acquaintance: I took to him straightaway
to have recourse to: to take to the bottle
take to heart to regard seriously
Words Nearby take to
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How to use take to in a sentence
But the take-to-the-streets outrage only materialized with Obama in office.
Nothing can take to-day away from us—it's ours beyond the reach of estrangement or change.
The White Shield | Myrtle ReedThe trail we were to take to-day was most of it new, the Silipan Ifugaos having finished it but a short time before our arrival.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga | Cornelis De Witt WillcoxNo; the place to observe nature is where you are; the walk to take to-day is the walk you took yesterday.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsI am off in an hour or two for a forty-mile ride, to take to-morrow's services (four) among soldiers and settlers.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge
I'll take to-day's eggs to father's store on the way and ask him if he minds our having a little walk.
The Story Of Waitstill Baxter | By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Other Idioms and Phrases with take to
Have recourse to, go to, as in They took to the woods. [c. 1200]
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