Sentence examples for acquiring something from inspiring English sources

A playwright of growing downtown renown, Ms. Skillman seems to be acquiring something suspiciously Midtown: polish.

And all too often, the buyers find that they cannot really change their lives just by acquiring something new and different.

I like having to fight for a player on the grounds that a battle to extricate him means you're acquiring something valuable".

Anyone who enjoys flea marketing can relate to the fantasy of acquiring something rare and wonderful for a song, but collecting tends not to be as goal-oriented as it might seem.

On the other hand, the Dutchmen in the Lotto NL-Jumbo team are acquiring something of an affinity for Yorkshire in spring, or what passes for it, over a British bank holiday weekend.

A member of a prominent Swiss musical family, he grew up in Berlin and studied violin at the Juilliard School in New York, acquiring something of an outsider's perspective.

And at every stage we acquire something.

Thus he acquires something of the aura of a guru.

Yet the enlightenment has acquired something of a bad name.

To kill; to go to such efforts to acquire something useless, is just baffling".

Once people acquire something they want, their goals change, and they desire something new.