take up space

Idioms  

1. Also,. See take up, def. 6.

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Example Sentences

"It is really important to me to show other women my age that it's still OK to take up space, it's still OK to want to look after yourself and do the best that you can."

From BBC

“I’ve never really dressed in archival high fashion. I grew up in South-Central, first gen, so it was really hard to get these sorts of pieces. Ronben styled me, and we had a beautiful conversation about fashion, about the past, about how us Latinos should take up space in the fashion world. That was my inspiration.”

From Los Angeles Times

While San Francisco is a leading hub for technology and innovation, city officials have also encountered safety concerns from residents concerned about running into robots as they take up space on sidewalks.

From Los Angeles Times

It says: what if we let women take up space — physically, energetically, calorically — and celebrated them not in spite of that, but because of it?

From Salon

Mutchnick and Kohan define these men's lives on their own terms, much in the way they wrote Eric McCormack’s Will to take up space apart from Debra Messing’s Grace, making him a scene partner instead of a sidekick.

From Salon