Acquires

Examples

• The mind acquires through language a field of activity independent of the objective world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One is sometimes teased into going out, till one acquires a sort of habit of society, which it becomes difficult to throw off. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The babe acquires, as we well say, the mother tongue. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The accompanying expansion reduces the temperature to a very low degree, and the brine which circulates around the coil _E_ acquires a temperature below the freezing point of pure water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He from that moment acquires a degree of consideration which he never had before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We are pleased when we acquire an ability of procuring pleasure, and are displeased when another acquires a power of giving pain. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The passion commonly acquires new force and violence in both cases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He is not sunk in the new relation he acquires; so that the double motion or vibration of thought is still easy and natural. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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