take up's Usage Examples:

The road from Tuao to Rizal is rough and can take up to one-half-hours.

Travelling between locations can take up a lot of in-game time, so players must plan their moves strategically.

He was among nearly 30 young men who in October 1766 met at the city's London Coffee House to found the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club (GFHC), the first in America, to take up a pursuit closely associated with becoming true Englishmen.

In recent years, associations have been created at national level who seek to take up the slack.

There was a public outcry once this was found out by the general public, and at the time a fraudulent map was circulated showing that the railroad would take up of the street when it would only take up .

A journey time of 47 minutes to London Waterloo station is achievable with one change at Weybridge, however direct services via Staines upon Thames (with no changes) take up to 81 minutes.

decides to narrate a script to a producer he sees Virendra there, Virendra chides Rahul for living under his wife"s salary and dissuades him to take up filmmaking.

UNEP estimated that it could take up to 30 years to rehabilitate Ogoniland to its full potential and that the first five years of rehabilitation would require funding of about US"1 billion.

Boulton resigned following the completion of the first year to take up the State Director of Coaching position in Mississippi.

was appointed to accompany Emperor Charles V to Worms, to take up the cudgels against Martin Luther.

Marianne Danielle, a young French schoolteacher en route to take up a position in Transylvania, is abandoned at a village inn by her coach driver.

for naturalization who in the interview declared not to be willing to "take up arms personally" in defense of the United States.

He soon parted ways with his employer to take up an Auckland agency for Remington Typewriter Company but this proved short-lived.

Synonyms:

move, act,

Antonyms:

refrain, block, recall,