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  • I appreciate your concern, but this is just a piece of the story, not even the worst piece, and I am not telling it to garner sympathy.  (source)
  • Angel slipped through the front door, and holding the baseball behind his back, he tried not to garner his father's attention.  (source)
  • They do not garner the respect that the Athenaeum Club does.  (source)
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  • You garnered nearly half that in six tours of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.†  (source)
  • They were mansions, as large as the Garners' house and barn put together.†  (source)
  • I longed to get away from the theater altogether and stood listlessly, garnering information at last that was useless and infinitely dull.†  (source)
  • However, there are many who stand between me and the crown; it will not be easy to garner enough votes to become king.  (source)
    garner = get or acquire
  • To-Day and Thee The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books, Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!†  (source)
  • Before this, no radio signal received by the listening post had ever garnered a recognizability rating above a Blue 2.†  (source)
  • I don't know if it's the salt and peppershakers he's holding, or the fact that seeing Karen this time garners a different reaction from him now that he's dating her daughter.†  (source)
  • He won the popular vote over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin margin, garnering just 49 percent of the tally.†  (source)
  • The prosecution gave a recap of evidence presented during the criminal trial; and then the defense got a chance to garner sympathy for a murderer.  (source)
    garner = gain
  • —Yet could I bear that too; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart; Where either I must live or bear no life,—The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!†  (source)
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