takes up

Identifying and excising faulty accounts takes up more and more of their time as the country splinters again.

This one literally takes up four corners on Rue Sherbrooke, all navigable via underground routes.

He eventually takes up a job as a professor of architecture at Columbia University.

In the novel, Newton takes up with a frumpy, unlettered Kentucky woman well into middle age.

When a beautiful celebrity takes up arms against legislation in Japan, even the media takes notice.

Below the great gothic windows spreads the awning of a café, which takes up all the ground floor.

He takes up his hat suddenly and goes towards the door; stops irresolutely and comes back.

It weighs less per horse power, takes up less room and requires less fuel per hour than any other reliable motor.

To what sad, precarious, and miserable existence does he vow himself—he who takes up a literary career?

These are the followers of Levana, the austere goddess who takes up the new-born babe and perfects it by sorrow.