Sentence examples for this idea took from inspiring English sources

This idea took various forms.

This idea took lots of convincing.

This idea took wing when resveratrol, a substance found in trace quantities in red wine, was reported to activate sirtuin.

The theory provided a popular rationale for conglomerates.In the liberated capital markets of the 1980s, this idea took a beating.

I don't know otherwise how to explain how this idea took total hold over me, anymore than I know how the thought came to me, unbidden, in the first place.

Whenever this idea took hold, I recalled a medical ethicist at R.I.C. telling me about studies showing that doctors and nurses tend to rate the quality of life of severely impaired patients to be far lower than the patients do themselves.

This idea takes advantage of the fact that O157 has an enzyme that allows it to survive without oxygen, which is not true for most desirable bacteria.

As one who wrote in 2005 that ours was the generation that could end extreme poverty, I am pleased to see this idea take hold at the highest levels.

This idea, taken to its extreme, results in, as Muriel Spark would put it, a happy little band of fascisti — employees, students, children who resemble the Brodie set (the "freest" girls in the entire school).

Of course, it is also possible that this idea — take the best players off our hands so we can focus on ultimate frisbee at Swarthmore — is a calculated bluff.

Group member Andrew Feinberg, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says, "We're hoping to see how this idea takes hold.