How to Use take five in a Sentence

take five

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• The process took five hours in total.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
• The journey by car or taxi is three hours, while the bus takes five hours.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
• Just take five fingers, and the palm of your hand, and place it over your mouth.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• The project could take five to seven years to complete.
  — Mark Dee january 13, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2026
• Herbert took five sacks and three other hits.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
• Repairs will take five to eight hours once the water is turned off.
  — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 17 Nov. 2025
• This new tray only takes five minutes.
  — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• Pastrnak took five shots on the night, all of which were blocked.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
• Once water is turned off, the repair work will take five to eight hours.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
• Pribula took five sacks between those games.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2025
• One-third of adults in their 60s and 70s take five or more.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
• The second one took five months to film, felt like for-fu*king-ever.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
• Luke Isaak took five trips to the line over the final eight minutes.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• And most of my goals have taken five to 10 years to complete.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
• The upper chamber takes five litres and the filter lasts six months.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Dec. 2024
• Betsy took five years to complete but the restaurant had closed by that time.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The first is that designing new cars from scratch often takes five years or more.
  — Sean Tucker, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• There’s no water needed, and the whole process takes five minutes or less.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
• Fagan took five out-of-state trips in the last six months, her calendars show.
  — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 3 May 2023
• The episode took five days to shoot, with the dinner table scene taking about half a day.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The opening scene took five days of night shoots to capture and was more or less shot in sequence.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• Swing states took five days or longer, but votes are expected to be tallied a bit faster this year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• Any change in strategy could take five to seven years to show up in those metrics.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2025
• The training took five minutes and was meant to be performed twice daily.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• The 5-second video took five minutes to produce.
  — PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025
• There have been some pieces that have taken five or six different hikes to get the right lighting.
  — Outside, 18 Jan. 2026
• The concrete work took five years to build and was finished in 1931.
  — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Apr. 2025
• That’s why the shock — seeing a bridge that took five years to build disappear in seconds.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
• Now, Holleran takes five minutes in the evening to lay out her outfit for the next day.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
• And then there was the creation of this Barbie, a process that wound up taking five years.
  — Time, 27 June 2023