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171 example sentences for ACQUIRE, such as:

1. Elsie acquired a good knowledge of Chinese.
2. Nobody knew how she had acquired her wealth.
3. The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.
4. She acquired a knowledge of the English by careful study.
5. He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACQUIRE
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acquire
 v.  gain through experience or effort; gain possession of; locate with tracking system
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  No ground, because nothing was taken from them; and no opportunity, because those in authority kept them under control, and never employed them in affairs in which they could acquire importance.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  Of the mistakes it commits in the effort to acquire liberty, I shall speak, hereafter, in the proper place.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIX.
3  In the first place, to enable a citizen to work harm and to acquire undue authority, many circumstances must be present which never can be present in a State which is not corrupted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
4  And this from their eagerness to acquire without knowing what way to take.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
5  For we never find Rome seeking to acquire towns, or to purchase peace with money, but always confiding in her own warlike valour, which could not, I believe, be said of any other republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX.
6  Those who by valorous ways become princes, like these men, acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
7  And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV — THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT...
8  Whenever they were asked to do so, the Negro students gladly took the Indians as room-mates, in order that they might teach them to speak English and to acquire civilized habits.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
9  There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had been born with one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast--that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  He wanted a wife and he wanted children and, if he did not acquire them soon, it would be too late.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  I like babies and I like little children, till they begin to grow up and acquire adult habits of thought and adult abilities to lie and cheat and be dirty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  She could not acquire the air of doing things because she wanted to, and making her choice the final seal of their fitness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
14  Though a Gopher Prairie regards itself as a part of the Great World, compares itself to Rome and Vienna, it will not acquire the scientific spirit, the international mind, which would make it great.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
16  My sister couldn't take her desk with her to the new house: that's how I came to acquire it.
17  The key to acquiring proficiency in any task is repetition.
18  Children seek out regularities and rules in acquiring language.
19  If American is not interested in acquiring US Airways, a different suitor may also come from an unexpected place.
20  The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.
21  The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
22  He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.
23  A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
24  Old properties in the town have acquired a scarcity value.
25  The company has recently acquired new offices in central London.
26  The company has recently acquired a new office building in central Boston.
27  Elsie acquired a good knowledge of Chinese.
28  EWS carried out further bloodletting by sacking senior employees, but has acquired a new chief executive.
29  She acquired a knowledge of the English by careful study.
30  Nobody knew how she had acquired her wealth.