How to Use take five in a Sentence

take five

idiomatic phrase

• And then… Jasper takes five games in a row to win, 6-4.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
• The original Key Bridge took five years to build in the 1970s.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Luke Isaak took five trips to the line over the final eight minutes.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Singing live for every take five days a week is not easy.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• The episode took five days to shoot, with the dinner table scene taking about half a day.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• Work on the $800 million first phase could take five years or more to complete, said Kramer.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• And then there was the creation of this Barbie, a process that wound up taking five years.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Keep in Mind The chairs are made to order and will take five or more weeks to deliver.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Titan is designed to take five people to a depth of 4,000 meters.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 19 June 2023
• Betsy took five years to complete but the restaurant had closed by that time.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• Fagan took five out-of-state trips in the last six months, her calendars show.
  — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 3 May 2023
• There’s no water needed, and the whole process takes five minutes or less.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
• Dixon said the restoration project is likely to take five to seven years and cost up to $9 million.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
• Minus the hard-boiling, the whole thing took five minutes from start to finish and left me with just one bowl to clean.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 3 May 2024
• This password was counted 4,230 times and takes five minutes to crack.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The training took five minutes and was meant to be performed twice daily.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• The South African athlete’s challenge against the testosterone rules has taken five years so far.
  — Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
• The duo take five boxes full of Scratchers while leaving behind a portion of a sixth one.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• The whole design process takes five painstaking years, from initial drawings to the vessel’s launch.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
• Modern rodenticides kill rats in a process that may take five to 10 days.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• The full project is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take five years to complete.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 7 July 2022
• This ultra-thin caliber is just 3.2mm thick and took five years to develop.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
• Some songs take 30 minutes and some take five different sessions to mess around with.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• In total, the rescue mission took five hours to complete, according to the LVFD.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• The William Winter Boot: These boots took five wears to break in fully and have very little arch or ankle support.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
• Gordon had nine, but only took five shots and Grayson Allen only had three shot attempts.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2024
• Each of the game’s 15 areas is short–even the longest and most difficult levels only take five minutes to clear, with a bit of luck.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Level 8 took five years to build, with plenty of troubleshooting.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• In her 30s, the antibiotics would take five weeks to knock out the bugs, and another two months after that for her body to finish healing.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• Sichuan is a leading grower in China of apples, plums and other fruit, and fruit trees that die could take five years to replace.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024