The phrase 'takes different shapes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe something that changes or is adaptable to a range of situations. For example, you could say "In a dynamic environment, success often takes different shapes."
After that their routes took different shapes.
Cinco de Mayo symbolized the country's determination to thwart foreign aggression, but its commemoration has taken different shapes over the years.
One top union official, who insisted on anonymity because lawmakers and labor leaders have agreed not to discuss the status of the bill, said, "Even if card check is jettisoned to political realities, I don't think people should be despondent over that because labor law reform can take different shapes".
Writing about oral history can take different shapes depending on the narrators and time periods to which they refer, but one of the most effective ways to write about any time period is to analyze these tensions that narrators can feel when recalling their lives.
He said "Russia, forward!": He proposed modernization; condemned the criminal justice system, which still smacks of Stalin's Gulag; renamed the militia the "police"; joined the Western coalition on Libya; and — well, etc. etc. Yes, but Putin never ceased being No. 1. Putin can take different shapes.
These quotas take different shapes.
Since then, Morocco's struggle for control of Islamic discourse has taken different shapes and routes.
The collaboration will investigate shape-memory alloys, a class of "smart" materials that can take different shapes at different temperatures.
He compares the new program's approach to making Jell-O: teaching students to take different shapes in an unforeseeable future.
The fact that wax can take different shapes and secondary qualities (temperature, smell, touch) while the volume (extension) stays the same, make it a rich source of analogies, natural to Greek, Roman and medieval culture, where wax was used both for sculpture, writing (wax tablets) and encaustic painting.
