Obtains
[əb'teinz]
Examples
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato. The Republic.
- This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If _A_ hits two balls instead of one, the energy possessed by _A_ is given in part to one ball, and in part to the other, so that neither obtains the full amount. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He obtains a little measure of wine and gives the lad a portion of it very carefully. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At the moment the inventor obtains the solution of his problem his mind may seem to be least engaged with it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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