How to Use take (someone or something) seriously in a Sentence

take (someone or something) seriously

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• That response would not take seriously the point that this is a war.
  — Destinee Adams, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
• But there’s a risk here, and one Democrats would do well to take seriously.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
• The post also warns that the group poses a threat that targets should take seriously.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
• One thing the wrestlers do take seriously is their love of soccer in Australia.
  — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 23 June 2024
• But that doesn’t mean the dirty windows aren’t posing health hazards that the city must take seriously.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Danis has been a fighter tough to take seriously as a combat sports athlete.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• What all of them take seriously is that their friend group is extraordinary.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
• Miller feels the temptation, but never enough to take seriously.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• These are things to take seriously and to try to protect yourself, but there's also no reason for panic.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Signs that a dog is attempting to escape is something all dog owners should take seriously.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 July 2024
• All of that being said, this is a warning the Patriots need to take seriously.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
• At 1 percent, the tax is way too low for corporations to take seriously.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• And these are things the department has to take seriously and also has to consider what this means for the future.
  — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022
• All the great empires were wrecked in wars engaged on the periphery of their reign — a lesson republics should take seriously.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• But the spinoff’s approach lands as both too heavy-handed to ignore and too superficial to take seriously.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2023
• But did the seven supporters take seriously the criticism the plan faced?
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
• Their fanatical conviction is easy to mock, but also hard not to take seriously.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• This is the biggest holiday in my family and the only one my parents take seriously!
  — Diana Tsui, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Jan. 2023
• Some seemed not to take seriously the risk that infections like RSV and the flu can pose to even healthy children.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 5 July 2025
• That’s why eye health is an issue that both individuals and businesses need to take seriously.
  — Sonali Bloom, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• To read Frost is to wonder which parts of a poem to take seriously—and to sense his presence over your shoulder, laughing at your mistakes.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
• Snyder had myriad opportunities to correct course and to take seriously the claims made against him and his team.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Military leaders must take seriously the challenges posed by civilian efforts to politicize the armed forces.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
• Those critiques about his music, Eduin refuses to take seriously.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
• All of this for a tournament that remains largely unproven, and that many of the participating clubs may fail to take seriously.
  — Pablo Maurer, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• In spite of the significant rains and floods, many residents didn’t take seriously the threat of the dam breaching and stayed put, focusing on shoring up their homes.
  — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• While many Godzilla films have sought to appeal to a younger audience, Gabara feels just too juvenile to take seriously as a threat.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
• How, then, are we expected to take seriously the report’s call to establish a new, more aggressive climate standard?
  — Jorge Aguilar, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
• Even though Caton’s observations of brain waves were correct, his thinking was too unorthodox for others to take seriously.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2020
• But Don Gato is being marketed as an additive-free brand, something that tequila fans do take seriously.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024