With each beat and step, time assumed a kind of distorted reality, as though time.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

Other times, like right now, you assume too much.

Assuming we get electricity again some time in the near future.

Hostages have now had time to assume command of their ships as programmed.

Past hard times notwithstanding, don't assume you will find bargain-basement prices.

For some time past a problem that had once been remote was assuming dimensions of increasing urgency.

Assuming he knew the country well enough it wouldn't take him any time to search his mind for a likely hiding place.

I've wanted to ask why all this time but I assumed there was some special reason for us to go on foot.

By the time all our relatives and assumed friends left for the graveyard it was mid-afternoon.