Sentence examples for gained a taste for from inspiring English sources

But their ambitious leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gained a taste for power.

Once you have gained a taste for adrenaline-flavoured simplicity, it can become addictive.

Here he gained a taste for being at the centre of things.

Audiences of immigrants from parts of Africa may have gained a taste for stand-up by growing up with what Mr. Mpulamasaka called "mafooling," a schoolyard insult-competition like a beat-free rap battle.

Demand boomed after the second world war, thanks to returning American soldiers, who had gained a taste for pizza in Italy.Today, pizza is benefiting from the trend towards healthy cooking.

Oppenheimer later felt he should have resigned as adviser to the commission in January 1950, when Truman approved the testing of the hydogen bomb, but he had gained a taste for political Washington even in its anti-communist hysteria.

In the 1970s the "tiger" economies were producing a middle class gaining a taste for luxuries.

In Israel they pour out of the armed forces, where they learn how to lead and gain a taste for technology.

Like social work students, occupational therapists spend a lot of time on placements, gaining a taste for the challenges and rewards which await.

Three years is plenty for Jackson to gain a taste for leather perv-breeks and clanking S&M pop, but she might want to pause for thought before diving headlong into smack addiction and pretending to be Trent Reznor.

The smaller, more prosaic gambling halls stretched across the country have actually helped the boom, casino executives say, serving as a kind of a feeder system for Las Vegas as people gain a taste for gambling and then aspire to a touch of the big time.