Sentence examples for were acquiring a from inspiring English sources

In the 1970's Pop artists were acquiring a certain elegance.

He sensed, however, that the boys were acquiring a reputation as being bad just because they were skateboarding.

Tottenham were acquiring a Copa Libertadores and Club World Cup winner – Paulinho played well in Corinthians' victory over Chelsea in the final in December 2012 – and a burgeoning force on the international scene.

"And one by-product of that was the question of whether defensive players were acquiring a sense of invulnerability, and playing the game with a level of abandon and recklessness that was not warranted.

Before the 1930s movies needed little more than a theatre prop-and-set man, but now they were acquiring a "reality" of their own that called for a look and a mood.

But by 50,000 years ago and probably much earlier, hominins were acquiring a diverse range of animals and transporting selected pieces with the most meat or nutritional value to home bases (Assefa 2006).

The EU is acquiring a midlife crisis.

I'm acquiring a new company.

Roddick is acquiring a reputation for fragility along with marketability.

Already he was acquiring a reputation outside the territory.

It made an announcement that it was acquiring a bank.