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'take in' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'take in' with 10 example sentences.


take in verb

: provide with shelter

: fool or hoax

: suck or take up or in

: visit for entertainment

: call for and obtain payment of

: see or watch

: express willingness to have in one's home or environs

: fold up

: take up mentally

: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

: hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers

: accept

: take in, also metaphorically

: take up as if with a sponge

: serve oneself to, or consume regularly

: take into one's family

: make (clothes) smaller


  • I think this photo was taken in October.
  • Let me see the pictures you took in Paris.
  • What do you take in your coffee?
  • This is the picture I took in his house.
  • Were these pictures taken in Germany?
  • That photo was taken in my childhood.
  • Don't be taken in by his words.
  • He was completely taken in by the story.
  • You were taken in by her.
  • Would you like to take in a movie?
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