How to Use uptake in a Sentence

uptake

noun

• She's pretty quick on the uptake.
• But in the six weeks since, the uptake has proven even weaker than feared.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
• One reason for the slow uptake in the United States is a lack of places to recharge.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• The fact that the potential new guy was so quick on the uptake was enough for our thumbs-up.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
• At least, that appears to be the case from the social media uptake.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2022
• But researchers say uptake of these new agents has been slow.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• The county has set a goal to increase booster uptake in this group to 50% by Nov. 12.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2021
• This even includes iPhone and iPad owners, though many are quick on the uptake.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Mar. 2022
• Detroit is among the the places in Michigan with the lowest rates of vaccine uptake.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2021
• The uptake of EVs isn’t the only thing driving demand down.
  — David Hodari, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• However, uptake of those doses has been slow out of the gate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• So what’s to be done as parental leave uptake increases?
  — Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 3 May 2023
• Meta, to date, has spent more than $15 billion on its metaverse project, but uptake has been slow.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Hanna said the uptake of Rx Kids in Flint suggests that's working.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
• Whether the massive uptake in AI can be the wind under blockchain’s wings has yet to be determined.
  — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• The study suggests vaccine uptake may be partly to blame.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• Helping to fuel the uptake in demand for the monitors has been a drop in prices.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2021
• In the time since, as CNN noted last week, the burden has shifted to states with less vaccine uptake.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
• Did the state’s reluctance to get on board delay the program’s uptake?
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2024
• But in states with low vaccine uptake, those nudges didn’t change the momentum.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
• This will increase your oxygen uptake to 60 breaths per minute.
  — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2021
• But this statistic includes uptake of the older boosters, which were tuned to the original strain of the virus.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• As office life starts to return to normal, the uptake on its service has slowed.
  — Chris Wack, WSJ, 21 June 2022
• But the June study suggested that Covid vaccine uptake explained just 10% of the partisan gap in the deaths.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2022
• Crummy uptake isn’t a new issue, and some of the same deterrents that have plagued rollouts from the start haven’t gone away.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
• In the pandemic, the Philippines suffered a high death toll and low vaccine uptake.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Baseball, too, was slow on the uptake, leaving A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell to carry the protest torch alone.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2021
• The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• By the end of March, however, the microalgae’s carbon uptake had jumped, along with the number of cells and the concentration of chlorophyll — proxies for growth and photosynthesis.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
• But the early uptake by premium video gamers was disappointing.
  — Harvard Business Review, 18 Feb. 2025