Sentence examples for take poorly from inspiring English sources

I take poorly to planes.

He knows, too, that some would rather sell drugs and steal than take poorly paying jobs.

Most small animals take poorly to water, so be prepared to ward off escape attempts from a very slippery animal.

Strong unions often lock up industries, keeping immigrants from taking poorly paid jobs (indeed, America has a long history of unions doing just this).

"A lot of women end up taking poorly paid contracts once they have children, rather than permanent jobs," says Deborah Sugg Ryan, associate professor of history and theory of design at Falmouth University.

I agree that multi-generational unemployment has to be urgently tackled, that it is worth taking poorly paid work in the hope that it will create greater opportunities down the line.

Apples now seem like the most blandly idealized of fruit, but all those Jonathans and Baldwins probably owe their DNA to Chapman's random plantings: European grafts took poorly to American soil, so the apple, like any other pioneer, had to go primitive before it could progress, digging deep in its genome for new capacities.

Photographers began to take advantage of a willing public's belief in the afterlife by taking poorly exposed portraits and telling family members the blurry forms in the background were images of deceased family members.