The phrase "acquire sight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is gaining the ability to see or understand something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "After years of study, she finally began to acquire sight into the complexities of human behavior."
Alternatives: "gain vision" or "attain clarity".
Recalling Classical epics, in which the haunts of the muses are not only mountaintops but also waterways, Milton cites Siloa's brook, where in the New Testament a blind man acquired sight after going there to wash off the clay and spittle placed over his eyes by Jesus.
In the first instance, philosophers considered it to be impossible that a man born blind should be able to acquire sight.
In my experience the sights were only used to acquire the target and once the firing started the gunner would use the tracers to guide the projectiles to the target.
The ground-based approach requires set-up of a camera within sight of the master channel to acquire flow dimensions and velocity.
And in January, you might have seen that Johns Hopkins has agreed to acquire the iconic Newseum building located on Pennsylvania Avenue, in sight of Capitol Hill and coincidentally located next to the embassy of my home country, Canada.
Blind people must rely more than sighted people on auditory input in order to acquire information about the world.
The Magic then hatched a plan to acquire two of the most enticing free agents available, setting its sights on Tim Duncan, Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady.
In project one and two, touching augments sight as the apparatuses extend out from the wearer's back to acquire information and transport it back through the sense of touching.
Chevron on Tuesday became the latest energy company to set its sights on unconventional natural gas exploration, announcing that it had reached an agreement to acquire Atlas Energy for $3.2 billion.
They acquire their full meaning within arm's reach, in the confiding zone — the ambit of embraces — where the sovereignty of sight blurs into that of touch.
