Sentence examples for acquired thing from inspiring English sources

Cigarettes and a months-long case of bronchitis helped, but Dylan's new singing voice — unpretty, emphatic, indeterminately regional, redolent of a shadowy history — was, to a great extent, a choice, an acquired thing.

I packed my car with acquired things, mostly plants my mother has grown, things that don't have a chance of surviving northern temperatures.

Novelists (and those self-scrutinizing men) became interested in the question of what happened after a man had acquired things (money, love, status), the getting of which was the engine of earlier narratives.

Consider the way humans acquire things.

"At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things.

And Mr Biswas buys things, he acquires things, his wife, Shama, owns things of her own.

(The most economical way of acquiring things is to make them yourself).

George was known on campus for his ability to acquire things without paying for them.

"I actually saw things to acquire, things to want to go to school for," he said.

"It's a good way to acquire things you otherwise couldn't afford".

Walksler is constantly acquiring things and rearranging the museum to accommodate the new.