Sentence examples for take sign from inspiring English sources
noun
A sign from the third base coach, or whoever the batter receives signals from, telling the batter that no matter what he will not swing at the next pitch.
Torre gave him the take sign, following conventional wisdom.
"Mickey and Roger and Ellie Howard, they never looked down to third base on a 3-0 count for a take sign," he said.
Danny Graves had thrown six successive balls with no one out, and Benard got the take sign for the reliever's seventh pitch.
As a four-year starter and leadoff hitter at Catholic University in Washington in the mid-to-late 1980s, Cashman was known for refusing to look down the third-base line at his coach for fear of seeing the take sign.
During a game in August, Hornsby was on third base late in the game and threw up his hands in disgust in response to a sign flashed by Rickey; he had given the current batter the take sign, and Hornsby felt the batter should have hit the ball.
Mswati III succeeded his father in 1986, and in 2005, after much give and take, signed a new Constitution.
As one simple example of how the app works, take sign-ups for further information on a website.
The product won't be publicly available for a few months, but today Splice is revealing the idea and starting to take sign-ups from musicians for the private beta.
At the time, it opened up sign-ups for a small private alpha test, but starting today, it will take sign-ups for its soon-to-launch Max beta.
Zerve, a startup backed by the likes of DFJ and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang that has built a merchant platform for local businesses to list activities, and then take sign-ups and payments for them — think OpenTable for events — is today kicking off a new phase in its life.
This appears to have led Peirce to take signs other than the symbol more seriously.
