Sentence examples for taking up things from inspiring English sources
The biggest risk in these age-related lifestyle changes is that people live and die by the calendar, giving up things they still genuinely enjoy and taking up things they're bored with, only to conform and fit in.
The mourner takes up things the dead leave behind; for Goldman, his father's prayer shawl.
People then took up things he'd said, so that he was able to turn the discussion without ever appearing to.
He moved to Paris, immediately taking up all things fashionable.
But you won't be able to find a place of honor if all your space is taken up by things that don't matter.
"We are willing to take up the things we can agree on," Mr. Cantor said.
"If I take up my things and go to another place, the problems will be there in a year," she said.
I don't even know if this is art, participatory theater, a refreshing sociological experiment in how quickly adults will take up childish things, or perhaps a harbinger of the next fitness craze.
When people take up these things [exclusion diets], they are trying to manage the horror of how food is affecting them on an individual level and how unsafe they are feeling.
By putting down your phone, you're allowing your time to be taken up by things that mean something to you, rather than simply "wasting" time.
