take up

Example Sentences

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As Middlesbrough cannot appeal, they would have to take up a fight for compensation against Southampton.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

The purchase, worth just over $30 billion, was expected to take up to a year, and it needed the full 12 months to go through.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

With hantavirus, the incubation period can take up to six weeks, so people must be isolated for a really long time to ensure they won’t get sick and start infecting others.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Now that digital habits take up so much of our down time, who knows how much space we have left to fill with daydreams?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

If would-be artists sense that their gifts are not large enough to succeed as painters, sculptors, or architects, they may take up one of the countless special fields known collectively as “the applied arts.”

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson