ACQUIRED in a Sentence

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171 example sentences for ACQUIRED, such as:
1. But Juanita also acquired merit.
2. So Jurgis acquired the reading habit.
3. Elsie acquired a good knowledge of Chinese.
4. I have recently acquired a taste for olives.
5. Nobody knew how she had acquired her wealth.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ACQUIRED
acquired
 a.  gotten through environmental forces
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  She was self-possessed and walked with a dignity that surpassed even Mammy's, for Mammy had acquired her dignity and Dilcey's was in her blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5  The Welly Brys, after much debate, and anxious counsel with their newly acquired friends, had decided on the bold move of giving a general entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6  Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
7  Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  But Juanita also acquired merit.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  She was, perhaps, rather proud of herself for having acquired so much tolerance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  The two or three men who had tried to take advantage of her in a deal acquired celebrity by their defeat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
11  He could never learn like other people, never acquired any finish.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
12  She spent much of her time in the water since she had acquired finally the art of swimming.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
13  Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband's bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
14  He had acquired new standards of living, which were not easily to be altered.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
15  So Jurgis acquired the reading habit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.
2  The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
3  He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.
4  A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
5  Old properties in the town have acquired a scarcity value.
6  The company has recently acquired new offices in central London.
7  The company has recently acquired a new office building in central Boston.
8  Elsie acquired a good knowledge of Chinese.
9  EWS carried out further bloodletting by sacking senior employees, but has acquired a new chief executive.
10  She acquired a knowledge of the English by careful study.
11  Nobody knew how she had acquired her wealth.
12  The local council has recently acquired the site.
13  I have recently acquired a taste for olives.
14  The term'alexia'is used to refer to any acquired disorder of reading.
15  Skill is acquired through repeated practice, and practice makes perfect.