How to Use take shape in a Sentence

take shape

idiomatic phrase

• Over the next two weeks, the kitchen began to take shape.
  — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
• From Kwak’s dream, a truer form of the future takes shape.
  — Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
• In 2019, Smith told Rolling Stone the album was slow to take shape.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
• The next wave of the core has to start taking shape to show what the future could look like.
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• How and when did the album’s theme begin to take shape?
  — Patrick Lyons, Spin, 15 Sep. 2023
• The idea for the foundation began to take shape in 2021.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2 Aug. 2024
• But, the outlook is brighter as 2025 and beyond take shape.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
• This isn’t the first such transatlantic supply chain to take shape.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022
• The field for the 2023 Boston Marathon is beginning to take shape.
  — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• The slowdown of Christmas and New Year is over, but the things to look forward to for the rest of the year are yet to take shape.
  — Carl Anka, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
• Lo and behold, out of nowhere a small pole barn was taking shape.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• Footage from that day posted on YouTube shows a wheel slowly take shape on the sonar screen.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
• In my home, that would take shape as a classic carne asada.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Step 5: Let the mattress take its shape The flat, sometimes crinkly foam will inflate and take shape.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2025
• Here are some of the policies that will be taking shape: What is Title 42?
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
• As the ski season approached, that plan began to take shape.
  — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• McMillan said a plan for the horse already is taking shape.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
• Cedar Park's new downtown area is taking shape with a park that opened last week.
  — Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 16 Dec. 2024
• The axis of resistance took shape in the years after the 9/11 attacks.
  — Toby Matthiesen, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2024
• For Ullrich, Plus Rides has been taking shape for years.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
• As the new, gray wall has taken shape, artists have begun to once again add color.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Over the course of the application and firing of layers, the details of the dragon take shape.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The women’s Sweet 16 is just taking shape, with more games Monday.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
• This helps the dough take shape and fully meld without having to overwork it.
  — Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
• Then, go about your business while shiny, vintage-style ringlets take shape.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2024
• Other Southern states followed suit as the Jim Crow era took shape.
  — Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• What’s not known and difficult to project is how the 16-team league with eight newcomers over the past two years will take shape.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• The concept lingered in her mind for weeks, waiting for the perfect moment to take shape.
  — Tiana Denicola, Variety, 21 Dec. 2024
• The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2025
• With a robust co-production chain taking shape in the Western Hemisphere, a slowdown in the closer-to-home sourcing trend would hurt, not help, American producers.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 14 Mar. 2025