take place

phrase

: happen, occur

The conference is scheduled to take place in June.

Fighting over a disputed section of the border is taking place in remote jungle …

—James Brooke

What's clear amid the debate is that a remarkable revolution has taken place in the care and treatment of America's children.

—LynNell Hancock et al.

Examples of take place in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There was no indication that the world’s largest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup 2026, was taking place or that South Florida was playing a key role, hosting seven matches. — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026

Salgado Araujo was driving himself and three others to a construction site for work when the confrontation took place, according to lawyers involved in the matter. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 25 July 2026

The events take place across 16 cities in the United States, plus Toronto in Canada, to coincide with the tour leg of singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, a minority shareholder in Ipswich Town. — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 24 July 2026

In the fifth clip, which appeared to be a sequence that took place before the Hal-alien fight scene, Jordan is in a bar and yearns to start a fight with the locals. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1770, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for take place

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace