take shape

Slowly the eulogies began to take shape, common themes woven through the contours of their extraordinary individual lives.

But there is little question that if such a coalition is to take shape, the United States will have to lead it.

When Arab Spring-style protests take shape in the capital's main plaza, Jamal orders up a "bloodbath."

It would take shape in accordance with a three-step acknowledgement of the basic realities we confront on the issue.

Often, therefore, economic hierarchies take shape as society undergoes the “natural transition” from aristocracy to democracy.

In Upper Canada party struggles did not take shape until well after the War of 1812.

He smiled at his foolish fancy, but dramatic incidents began to take shape about the image of that girl.

These things take shape in the mind of the reader; they are recreated and set up where the mind's eye can rest on them.

These desires readily take shape in the city as the spirit of war and as a craving for excitement of various kinds.

When the dawn slowly stole into the garden, so that the ghosts of day began to take shape and color, Gavan rose among them.