How to Use take five in a Sentence

take five

idiomatic phrase
Definition of take fivenext
  • And then… Jasper takes five games in a row to win, 6-4.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
  • The original Key Bridge took five years to build in the 1970s.
    — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The journey by car or taxi is three hours, while the bus takes five hours.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
  • Luke Isaak took five trips to the line over the final eight minutes.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Singing live for every take five days a week is not easy.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The episode took five days to shoot, with the dinner table scene taking about half a day.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Now, Holleran takes five minutes in the evening to lay out her outfit for the next day.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • Work on the $800 million first phase could take five years or more to complete, said Kramer.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • And then there was the creation of this Barbie, a process that wound up taking five years.
    — Time, 27 June 2023
  • Keep in Mind The chairs are made to order and will take five or more weeks to deliver.
    — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The Titan is designed to take five people to a depth of 4,000 meters.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 19 June 2023
  • Betsy took five years to complete but the restaurant had closed by that time.
    — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Fagan took five out-of-state trips in the last six months, her calendars show.
    — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 3 May 2023
  • Known as Casa Loro, the property spans 30 acres within the reserve and took five years to come to life.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no water needed, and the whole process takes five minutes or less.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Dixon said the restoration project is likely to take five to seven years and cost up to $9 million.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
  • That’s why the shock — seeing a bridge that took five years to build disappear in seconds.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Minus the hard-boiling, the whole thing took five minutes from start to finish and left me with just one bowl to clean.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 3 May 2024
  • This password was counted 4,230 times and takes five minutes to crack.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The training took five minutes and was meant to be performed twice daily.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The South African athlete’s challenge against the testosterone rules has taken five years so far.
    — Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
  • The Mets went up 5-1 on the Astros in the bottom of the second, taking five runs off left-hander Framber Valdez.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
  • The passion project took five years to complete and employed dozens of craftsmen, painters and sculptors, many of them from Italy.
    — Ray Parisi, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • The duo take five boxes full of Scratchers while leaving behind a portion of a sixth one.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The whole design process takes five painstaking years, from initial drawings to the vessel’s launch.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Modern rodenticides kill rats in a process that may take five to 10 days.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The full project is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take five years to complete.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 7 July 2022
  • This ultra-thin caliber is just 3.2mm thick and took five years to develop.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Some songs take 30 minutes and some take five different sessions to mess around with.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • After a pair of Anderson free throws, the Warriors took five straight 3-pointers.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024

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