Acquire

//əˈkwaɪɚ//

"Acquire" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Is it possible to acquire the bestseller in the bookstore in Akita?

I managed to acquire two tickets for the concert.

How does a child acquire that understanding?

The most valuable skill one can acquire is the ability to think for oneself.

It is advisable for a man or woman to acquire an accomplishment.

It is one thing to acquire knowledge; it is quite another to apply it.

I managed to acquire the book after a long search.

They sent their son to Europe to acquire culture.

With most of the arts, if you don't get the basics down properly then it is difficult to acquire further skills.

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.

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to acquire a skill

to acquire decent habits and manners

He acquired a title.

All the riches he acquired were from hard work.

One should acquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

In the process of basification, the top layer of the crust becomes basic, while the lower becomes ultrabasic acquiring the density of the mantle or an even greater density

If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.

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