1.   Words take second place to nonverbal cues, personal mannerisms, gestures, expressions, and overall appearance.

2.   Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over.

3.   Fabliau is in fact the form this word took in the dialect of the north-eastern corner of France in the twelfth to fourteenth century.

4.   As he recalled those days, his enthusiasm increased and his words took on renewed clarity.

5.   As he spoke, the words took a life of their own.

6.   At some point, I imagine the words took on wings and circled the area until they burned the backside of Pete Carroll.

7.   But he sang so clearly, and with such mercurial emotion, that long-familiar words took on new shades of tenderness and rancor, accusation and wiliness.

8.   But in recent years the word has taken on quite another identity and has been applied to pretty much everything from packaging to pajamas.

9.   But, as he is at pains to point out, the word has taken on a smell.

10.   Common words take on new meanings.