How to Use take up residence in a Sentence

take up residence

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  • Here, common spices like parsley, pepper, and more take up residence on the back of the Fresh-style doors.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The plastic crates take up residence next to the ice buckets, the Tide pods, and that photo of Hugh Hefner planking, never to be seen again.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The court also ruled that candidates must take up residence in a new district by May 8.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Lice are tiny insect parasites that take up residence on the scalp.
    — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2021
  • But some people have been forced to take up residence in communal shelters, and the virus may travel with them.
    — Alice Park, Time, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the case of metastatic breast cancer in the bones, cancer cells take up residence in parts of a person's bone, causing lesions that replace healthy tissue with cancer cells.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Earlier this year, the mayor of the Bay Area city of Richmond called on residents to allow complete strangers who are homeless to take up residence in their spare rooms.
    — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • After all four take up residence in Barb’s house—because there’s a shelter-in-place order and the ex-cons have nowhere else to go—Gloria and Rooster are ready to resume a life of petty crime.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Having Jupiter and Saturn take up residence in your 12th house of seclusion and Isolation will push you to reflect on your sense of faith and your desire to rescue the world from itself, sweet Pisces.
    — Janelle Belgrave, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Bacteria, commonly found in soil and water, take up residence in young trees or gain entrance to older trees through wounds.
    — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
  • While its current tenants are a small clutch of elderly American fighters, new Russian jets due in the spring could take up residence in the mysterious base.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Williams said sometimes simply harassing the geese by chasing them off your land repeatedly can drive them to take up residence elsewhere.
    — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • As the season moves from summer to autumn, Baran moves her Los Poblanos vela de herbal citronella candle ($62, food52.com) inside to deter the bugs that also want to take up residence there during the cooler weather.
    — Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the 61-year old new president-elect of Iran, heralds from a remote village in the northeast of the country, and after Friday's election victory, will take up residence in the presidential palace.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 19 June 2021
  • The ability to suspend your own point of view and temporarily take up residence in an employee’s perspective neutralizes negative reactions.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021

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