Sentence examples for took on all from inspiring English sources

At first, Olga let Sasha focus on his food while she took on all the talking.

"We took on all of the major forces in Florida, and we won.

Avuncular and amiable, Mr. Slovo, who is 63 years old, took on all callers during the two-hour program.

They took on all of the myths one by one, demolishing them with a passion that was but thinly concealed by the dryness of their prose.

The good player took on all comers and dispatched them, mercilessly, one by one.Most professionals learned to establish a prudent distance from that world.

He took on all questions and had an answer for each one.

From behind the thicket of those eyebrows and the frames of those glasses, Günter Grass took on all-comers.

She also took on all-comers at the Dynamo Fencing Club in Moscow in 1965 and won the Gisor Challenge in France.

But the finest time was reserved for the event's gala dinner when the charming Mohammed al-Fayed took on all-comers, including a minigarch or two, in bidding for a portrait of Joseph Stalin.

Bairstow, whose other double century came at Trent Bridge in May 2011 when he recorded his first three-figure score in first-class cricket, hit top gear after lunch when he took on all-comers.

In that time he took on all-comers, from 129lb featherweights to 173lb light heavyweights, with the calibre of Hall of Fame fighters such as Kid Gavilian, Carmen Basilio and Gene Fullmer sandwiched in between.