How to Use take for granted in a Sentence

take for granted

idiomatic phrase

• Harris does not take for granted the gifts nor the benefits.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• He’s been news every year since his Hollywood debut in 2005 and is easy to take for granted.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• The suction cups or claws adjust pressure and control with the finesse humans take for granted.
  — Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Americans take for granted that their aviation safety, flying in America, is the safest place to do it in the world.
  — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
• To me, this team is under-appreciated and the fans may take for granted what has been accomplished since 1988.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
• Our reliance on electricity for keeping food fresh and for cooking is easy to take for granted.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Sixteen years after the birth of Spotify, most of us now take for granted that every piece of music ever created is at our fingertips.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
• In Jordan, the second-most water-poor country in the world, people have long learned to live without the constant running water that most American families take for granted.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2022
• Many election officials have tried to educate the public in recent months with social media posts, articles and ads about the system so many people take for granted.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 8 Nov. 2022
• Merely remaining real — surviving the deprivation of home and privacy that most of us take for granted — is here a kind of victory.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Philosophers today, at least in the English-speaking world, almost all take for granted that the core Cartesian doctrines are theoretical nonstarters.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Where does that leave the substantial population who use cash to pay for life’s necessities because they are excluded from the financial services that most of us take for granted?
  — Richard McGill Murphy, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• As news of mass shootings, climate disasters and outbreaks of war dominate headlines, safety is a priority and a privilege that many take for granted.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024