How to Use take form in a Sentence

take form

idiomatic phrase
Definition of take formnext
  • With the idea of the cookbook taking form, the two learned how to trust each other in the kitchen.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The about-face of Seguin football is beginning to take form.
    — David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Near the end of high school, Williams’ cycling career started to take form.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • With a plethora of juniors on the team, the leadership core has taken form.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • With Green back in the fold and a strong five-man lineup starting to take form, that optimism may just be justified.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Within the fuselage, Townshend’s other concepts start to take form alongside those from the Sell Out mold.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Regardless of the shifting parts, the 2022 NFL draft has already started to take form, even if not in a manner that's anywhere close to complete.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But as soon as the band’s wispy electro-pop begins to take form, her presence becomes magnetic.
    — Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The 2021 Major League Baseball campaign is in the final stretch of the regular season with the playoff field beginning to take form.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • For what that means, think back to May of this year: What were the rapid changes, sudden upsets, and radical endings and beginnings taking form in your life then?
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Seattle’s roster is suddenly beginning to take form with the addition of one of the top players on the market.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • Meghan added that unconscious bias can take form in unexpected ways.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But as the new millennium dawned, the shackles of these rules would soon begin to break, and a more nuanced Black protagonist would soon begin to take form.
    — Rico Norwood, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
  • And pitch after pitch, bucket after bucket, day after day, and year after year, the swing of a future MLB superstar began to take form.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But by the time the statue began to take form in the 1870s, the United States was in the age of Reconstruction, which was too radical a vision of racial equality for the abolitionist Laboulaye.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
  • But the building’s character and soul won’t take form until fall, when students and alumni descend upon the arena to watch Longhorns basketball.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Look for toys that will promote the following play skills: Sensorimotor: Using your own body to take in and process the world, this can take form from playing with soft cloth books or kinetic sand.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • As the director got to know Rich, and later her family, a new film began to take form, shaped by Bradley's relationship and connection with her subjects.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • John loves his authenticity and seeing a real identity take form on the stage with this performance.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2023
  • It isn't even really supposed to take form until Friday afternoon.
    — Judson Jones, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In the years that followed, McKinley was in the thick of the chaos at the state’s marijuana coordination office, dodging and weaving as a new industry took form and regulations were put in place.
    — John Aguilar, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Then came the other component of creating the coffeehouse feel, the social component, which took form in the personalization of each drink order.
    — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
  • My favorite episode, the fourth (due on July 26), belongs to Konkle’s hilariously coy character, the dead man’s sister, whose version of events takes form as a Wes Anderson movie.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • The dazzling visual display will take form in the garden as an illuminated trail that will span one mile and feature scenes and art installations that come alive in technicolor.
    — Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Precious stones, vintage Ghanaian beads and pure silver shapes cast from decorative coral beads feature throughout, while big pearls from China take form as statement earrings.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
  • These take form in corporate or government decisions involving the construction of factories or the driving of diesel trucks through these particular neighborhoods, according to Estrada.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Often rooted in flawed research, this has taken form in phrenology, justifications for slavery, and eugenics, all of which with devastating consequences.
    — Thiago Arzua, STAT, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Oftentimes, this process requires expanding distribution channels, appealing to new target markets or reducing expenses, and can take form in several ways.
    — Colson Hillier, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Harper runs the country based on messages that economically sound promising, but are environmentally unsustainable, and have strong repercussions which conveniently will take form long after he is retired.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2011
  • The more easily accessible branches therefore accumulate molecules more readily, and fabulous shapes take form.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010

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