Sample Sentences for
acquire
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    An old man, with a breastplate of gold, wouldn't have lied just to acquire six sheep.  (source)
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    The mischief is merely that each one has much too much power. A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad. And because they know they can, they all soon acquire the habit more or less.  (source)
    acquire = get (pick up)
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    In addition to Jem's newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom.  (source)
    acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
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    Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely.  (source)
    acquired = obtained
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    One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance.  (source)
    acquire = coming into the possession of
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    She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste.  (source)
    acquiring = obtaining
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    Her three daytime black boys she acquires after more years of testing and rejecting thousands.†  (source)
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    Distributive are those that determine the Rights of the Subjects, declaring to every man what it is, by which he acquireth and holdeth a propriety in lands, or goods, and a right or liberty of action; and these speak to all the Subjects.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She acquireth" in older English, today we say "She acquires."
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    Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent),  (source)
    acquired = obtained (come into possession of)
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    I determined to go into business at once, and not wait to acquire the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got.  (source)
    acquire = come into possession of
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    whilst he had endured much trouble in acquiring, he had but little in keeping.  (source)
    acquiring = coming into the possession of
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    KELLER acquires the suitcase, and ANNIE gets her hands on it too, though still endeavoring to live up to the general air of propertied manners.†  (source)
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