How to Use take five in a Sentence

take five

idiomatic phrase

• And then… Jasper takes five games in a row to win, 6-4.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
• The original Key Bridge took five years to build in the 1970s.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Just take five fingers, and the palm of your hand, and place it over your mouth.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• The journey by car or taxi is three hours, while the bus takes five hours.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
• The concrete work took five years to build and was finished in 1931.
  — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Apr. 2025
• Luke Isaak took five trips to the line over the final eight minutes.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Singing live for every take five days a week is not easy.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• The upper chamber takes five litres and the filter lasts six months.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Work on the $800 million first phase could take five years or more to complete, said Kramer.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• And then there was the creation of this Barbie, a process that wound up taking five years.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Keep in Mind The chairs are made to order and will take five or more weeks to deliver.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• Even Scheifele, a No. 7 pick, took five years from draft day to emerge as a top-line centre at 23 years old.
  — Murat Ates, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The Titan is designed to take five people to a depth of 4,000 meters.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 19 June 2023
• Betsy took five years to complete but the restaurant had closed by that time.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• Fagan took five out-of-state trips in the last six months, her calendars show.
  — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 3 May 2023
• Known as Casa Loro, the property spans 30 acres within the reserve and took five years to come to life.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024
• There’s no water needed, and the whole process takes five minutes or less.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
• Dixon said the restoration project is likely to take five to seven years and cost up to $9 million.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
• That’s why the shock — seeing a bridge that took five years to build disappear in seconds.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
• Minus the hard-boiling, the whole thing took five minutes from start to finish and left me with just one bowl to clean.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 3 May 2024
• At most, the process will take five minutes — a quarter of the time needed for a lethal injection.
  — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
• This password was counted 4,230 times and takes five minutes to crack.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The training took five minutes and was meant to be performed twice daily.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• At another end of the spectrum a random email may take five minutes to write, and less than a minute for the recipient to read.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• Natural gas takes five years, while something like a nuclear plant can take over a decade to permit, construct and operate.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2026
• Al-Zubaidi ran for it, taking five of his top lieutenants to a military camp in Aden.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
• There have been some pieces that have taken five or six different hikes to get the right lighting.
  — Outside, 18 Jan. 2026