How to Use take (someone or something) seriously in a Sentence

take (someone or something) seriously

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• The post also warns that the group poses a threat that targets should take seriously.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
• But that doesn’t mean the dirty windows aren’t posing health hazards that the city must take seriously.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• And these are things the department has to take seriously and also has to consider what this means for the future.
  — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022
• All the great empires were wrecked in wars engaged on the periphery of their reign — a lesson republics should take seriously.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• These are things to take seriously and to try to protect yourself, but there's also no reason for panic.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• If we are elected, @JoeBiden and I will take seriously the changes in our climate and actively work to mitigate against the damage.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
• In spite of the significant rains and floods, many residents didn’t take seriously the threat of the dam breaching and stayed put, focusing on shoring up their homes.
  — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• At 1 percent, the tax is way too low for corporations to take seriously.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• While many Godzilla films have sought to appeal to a younger audience, Gabara feels just too juvenile to take seriously as a threat.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
• But the spinoff’s approach lands as both too heavy-handed to ignore and too superficial to take seriously.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2023
• What all of them take seriously is that their friend group is extraordinary.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
• This is the biggest holiday in my family and the only one my parents take seriously!
  — Diana Tsui, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Jan. 2023
• Snyder had myriad opportunities to correct course and to take seriously the claims made against him and his team.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• In light of experience, the Turkish people no longer take seriously any informal pledge by the West to supply the Patriot.
  — WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• But a Supreme Court with a vested interest in avoiding new constraints on its own power has to take seriously the threat of growing support for court-packing or term limits.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2020
• But those things began getting harder to take seriously.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 May 2022
• But local attorneys and advocates say the unit, or CIU, has failed to take seriously its mission to correct wrongs in the criminal justice system.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
• Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
  — Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Their fanatical conviction is easy to mock, but also hard not to take seriously.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• But even more important, the archdiocese noted in its statement, is the need to take seriously the Catholic obligation to observe abstinence on Lenten Fridays.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
• Even though Caton’s observations of brain waves were correct, his thinking was too unorthodox for others to take seriously.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2020
• Those critiques about his music, Eduin refuses to take seriously.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
• Few Democrats in positions of power take seriously the possibility of spending billions of dollars to redistribute wealth to the descendants of slaves.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• The company also received a report of someone getting a minor injury from a gas leak, so this is definitely something to take seriously.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some legal experts and activists saw Rolfe’s prosecution as a litmus test for whether the justice system was willing to take seriously Indigenous deaths in custody.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Such allegations are too self-serving to take seriously.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
• The other tension that researchers are starting to take seriously concerns a cosmic parameter called S8, which depends on the density of matter in the universe and the extent to which it is clumped up rather than evenly distributed.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2022
• Systrom also told me Artifact will take seriously the job of serving readers with high-quality news and information.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2023
• And the first criterion — that without which no interpretation can be taken seriously — is to take seriously the stories of the people themselves.
  — William B. Allen, National Review, 28 July 2023
• One is merely offended by Reeves’s obvious political allegories that are too vague and trite to take seriously.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024