Sentence examples for takes up position from inspiring English sources

Sweetzie takes up position on fleece bed.

A Free Syrian Army sniper takes up position in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Aleppo on 2 September.

Ed takes up position close to the nearby traffic lights with a mobile phone at the ready.

Shaun Wright-Phillips takes up position on England's left flank, I think, presumably prompting Aaron Lennon to move across to the right.

Toward the end of the piece, still alone on the stage, she takes up position as one of the corps of swans during the first great pas de deux from "Swan Lake".

What this means in practice is: she rolls up at some of the 30-plus apartments the Chandlers inhabited in Los Angeles, takes up position next to the Dumpster, inhales the gardenia-scented air and tries to intuit — by sheer force of authorial empathy alone — the answers to her questions.

The nonbatting side takes up positions in the field.

All of them have taken up position on the right.

Jonny Wilkinson, the England fly half, took up position.

Army officers took up position around the vice president's residence, Reuters quoted witnesses as saying.

"I'll take up position here by the entrance," Mr. Davis was saying at our first stop.