PARTAKE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for PARTAKE, such as:
1. They invited us to partake of their simple meal.
2. Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy.
3. They were happy to partake of our feast, but not to share our company.
4. His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer.
5. By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PARTAKE
partake
 v.  have some of the qualities or attributes of something
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
2  Here was knowledge in which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40
3  Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53
4  Having no desire to be entertained by a cat-and-dog combat, I stepped forward briskly, as if eager to partake the warmth of the hearth, and innocent of any knowledge of the interrupted dispute.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  The prisoners were compelled by their guards to alight, and were conducted to an apartment where a hasty repast was offered them, of which none but Athelstane felt any inclination to partake.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  She already tastes them," said Ulrica, stepping before the couch of Front-de-Boeuf; "she hath long drunken of this cup, and its bitterness is now sweetened to see that thou dost partake it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
8  Only the most unprejudiced of men like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are not so fastidious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
9  Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
11  Next day she received a box containing the Sacred Host, which was left at her house for her to partake of.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
12  Porthos had six occasions, and contrived in the same manner that his friends should partake of them; Aramis had eight of them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
13  Milady felt a consolation in seeing nature partake of the disorder of her heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
14  By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
15  He had hardly removed the stains of travel when it was time to partake of supper.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
Example Sentence:
1  We do not only meet to share each other's burdens, but also to partake in each other's joys.
2  The chance to partake in such a great historic movement doesn't come every day.
3  They were happy to partake of our feast, but not to share our company.
4  They invited us to partake of their simple meal.
5  A beggar-woman and her little boy -- pale, ragged objects both -- were coming up the walk, and I ran down and gave them all the money I happened to have in my purse -- some three or four shillings: good or bad, they must partake of my jubilee.