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Example sentences for "obtain"

Lexicographically close words:
obstructing; obstruction; obstructions; obstructive; obstructs; obtainable; obtaine; obtained; obtaineth; obtaining
  1. Pyrrhus made another attempt to obtain accommodation on tolerable terms.

  2. That Tusculum as it was the first to obtain passive burgess-rights (II.

  3. But this alteration was too far in advance of the spirit of the age to obtain full acceptance.

  4. But a woman’s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband.

  5. I asked an experienced elder who had profited by his knowledge of the world, “What course should I pursue to obtain prosperity?

  6. He therefore started for that direction; but, before doing so, ordered Kit Carson to proceed to Fort Hall and obtain such supplies as were required.

  7. These provinces of Mexico were the Indies where troublesome opponents were to be sent by government, to suck, like leeches, the public treasury, and thus obtain their fill to repletion.

  8. They crowded together more densely still as I came upon them, and rushed along in such a compact body, that I could not obtain an entrance--the horse almost leaping upon them.

  9. Then by the usual means of exchanging property, they know how, easily, to obtain it.

  10. The chase lasted for about three miles, but not a man present was able to obtain a shot, because their riding animals were so completely frightened as to be almost unmanageable; consequently, the bears made good their escape.

  11. He was afforded an opportunity to obtain a wardrobe, but to the mountaineer, such property would be entirely a superfluity.

  12. To obtain means to carry out his ardent desires, in the spring of 1827 he started on a backward trip to Missouri.

  13. This article, Kit really needed; and, in equal pace with his necessity, ran his anxiety that something should offer by which to obtain one.

  14. The taking of Indian scalps for a long time has been authorized by the Mexican Government, as a means of lessening their savage enemies, and handsome premiums have been offered as an inducement to obtain them.

  15. In this village, the traveler can obtain many comforts which are denied him even in the larger towns.

  16. If he continue of this opinion, I can obtain his admittance into the naval college at Portsmouth; after which, I shall put him forward in his profession with all the interest I can command.

  17. When he goes to a new district he cannot but be eager to obtain a geographical grasp of its form and arrangement.

  18. We obtain at first glance, now that we know how to look for it, a sense of its weight and movement.

  19. Ultimately it is probable that some one effect will obtain the mastery within him, an effect that his eye is specially capable of seeing and his mind of comprehending.

  20. Fronting it, you obtain a sense of its width; below it, you feel its force and volume; but in profile its grace is its leading quality.

  21. The desire to obtain and to possess passes away.

  22. I learned that the slaves had been without food all day, because the man who was sent to mill could not obtain his grinding.

  23. Uncle Jack was advised to obtain the liberation of his wife.

  24. I will give the above reward for his apprehension and delivery, or confinement, so that I obtain him, if taken out of the state, or $30 if taken within the state.

  25. If the owner desires further information relative to the death of his negro, he can obtain it by letter, or by calling on the subscriber ten miles south of Perry, Houston county.

  26. Those friends made an effort to obtain her liberation.

  27. If those States should disunite from the other States, for not including them in the temporary continuance of this traffic, they might solicit and obtain aid from foreign powers.

  28. Some obtain their living in hunting after lost slaves.

  29. All that wickedness was done as an excuse for his dissipated owner to obtain money.

  30. On some occasions I have seen him whip them severely, particularly for the crime of trying to obtain their liberty, or for what was called, "running away.

  31. Truth is common to all ages, and will obtain utterance by the truthful and the eloquent throughout all time.

  32. Can any of your readers tell me how to obtain access to a private act 1st Mary, Sessio secunda.

  33. Shedad became passionately enamoured of this woman, and yielded all the rest of his share in the booty in order to obtain possession of her and her two children.

  34. And we never be able to obtain retaliation excepting with our spear points!

  35. Upon the damp earth it would have been impossible to obtain any.

  36. I am convinced that if we mutually aid each other, and support each other frankly and loyally, we shall obtain magnificent results.

  37. Endowed with great finesse, Antinahuel flattered himself he could obtain from Don Gregorio a delay which would enable him to sacrifice his prisoner without being called to an account for it.

  38. That we should go out of our way to take pains to obtain embroidered sheets and lace-edged pillows, absolved us in their eyes from all the want of surgical nursing.

  39. And the cheapest and most reliable stimulant of that nature one can obtain commercially is, of course, whiskey.

  40. But, to our surprise, when we sought for labour or supplies in their country districts, we found that we could obtain neither.

  41. Still I continued making every imaginable enquiry, dispatching letters, and seeing postmasters, to obtain intelligence of the route which Clotilde had taken.

  42. To obtain the restitution of the jewels within the eight days that have to elapse before the one fixed for the ball, appears impossible.

  43. During the past summer he visited Trieste and Vienna; and I was informed, on good authority, had desired to go to England, but had been unable to obtain the permission of an emperor who seems determined no one shall travel but himself.

  44. To their infinite surprise, however, they could obtain no account whatever of such a document; and what was still more provoking, the librarians seemed to look upon them as insane when they asked for it.

  45. Sethos, she decided, should obtain the leadership of the royal guard, and her other lovers be rewarded, more or less, in proportion to their attractions.

  46. I know not; but I think the sons of Ashur can obtain what they want, even from beyond the mountains of Armenia, if they go to ask for it with bow and spear.

  47. While Leonora could not comprehend the larger significance of his discourse, it gratified her pride and pleased her vanity that her fiancée was a man who could obtain such a hearing from the medical profession.

  48. It took three days to obtain a jury of proper qualification and sufficient disinterestedness to satisfy both sides.

  49. Finally, she persuaded them all to return and obtain help from the village.

  50. In order that we may be the better prepared to fulfill our responsibilities, we should obtain all the knowledge possible, even although it may cause us lack of insight temporarily, and much mental agony.

  51. Menes, himself, carried to completion the great engineering feat of turning the course of the Nile so as to obtain a site for his capital, at Memphis.

  52. Why, the Casino property is entailed on you, and you might obtain a sum upon that, not to be paid till the property becomes yours.

  53. He went accordingly, not very boldly, it is true, and looking very much in reality like a poor professor anxious to obtain employment.

  54. Observing some vessels, from which he knew he should obtain assistance, he commenced a rapid descent in the direction of the Nore.

  55. He exercises a wild, bewildering fascination by his dark and mysterious nature, which is not at all diminished when we obtain a clearer insight into his strange history.

  56. The object of the Convention was to render the planters of cotton more independent of the ordinary vicissitudes of trade, and to enable them to obtain more uniformly high prices for their great staple.

  57. Amina, when she heard of this, in vain sought to obtain his release.

  58. It is this property of gold--its weight--which enables us to obtain it by the process called gold-washing.

  59. Hardly a year had elapsed since Napoleon, a penniless Corsican soldier, was studying in a garret in Paris, hardly knowing where to obtain a single franc.

  60. While these were your objects, I did my best, ineffectual as it was, to obtain the information required.

  61. But Metternich and the Cabinet grew alarmed at the struggle, and were eager to obtain the grant of men, and to close the refractory Diet.

  62. I became more attentive to the subject, and when propriety admitted it, I would relate to those whose life thus passed before me, the subject of my vision, that I might thereby obtain confirmation or refutation of it.

  63. That an inventor may surrender and obtain a re-issue of his patent more than once if necessary.

  64. He could only obtain it by disobeying the orders of his government.

  65. Certain," was the reply: and now Margaret Flathers began to breathe more freely; for she thought that the object of the terrible individual present was not to kill her, but to obtain back his gold.

  66. I could not obtain any employment in Woolwich: evening was coming on--and I was hungry.

  67. Of that I will say no more--save that the most powerful interest was exerted to obtain a mitigation of my sentence--but in vain!

  68. Stay," whispered Lady Cecilia: "I will go to the kitchen and obtain a light.

  69. We dispose of shares or effect transfers, and obtain our commission, let the result be what it may to the purchasers.

  70. To-night you came: companionship gave me resolution; and we have got wherewith to obtain the means of doing something for an honest livelihood.

  71. After all, your profuse expenditure and extravagance helped to involve me in no end of pecuniary trouble; and I was compelled to have recourse to any means to obtain money.

  72. But I was determined to defeat your treacherous designs--to avenge myself for the threats which you uttered against me--and to obtain the recompense you had promised me, at the same time.

  73. Monroe could obtain no employment in the City.

  74. Thus, from identity we derive duality, and from both together we obtain polarity, synthesis, indifference, predominance.

  75. To obtain this result we must get this information into the hands of parents and teachers.

  76. My brother can obtain him his pardon in cementing this alliance--" "Proceed.

  77. The scene was more open, airy, and quiet than one can usually obtain in London.

  78. To enable the reader to obtain an accurate idea of the present condition of the Ottoman army, Mr. Skene gives a brief but able review of its history.

  79. The military man cannot obtain any staff employ which affords an augmentation of pay until he shows himself well qualified in the native languages.

  80. Surely, then, this is the auspicious moment to obtain the sanction of the Church to our union?

  81. Every Hindoo and Mussulman who has occasion to resort to these courts, takes with him a bribe, knowing that unless he does so, it will be all but impossible for him to obtain a fair and impartial hearing.

  82. Maslatire has been twice to Cyprus to obtain materials for the history of French rule in that island, and the result will presently appear in two quarto volumes at the cost of the treasury.

  83. Being obliged to attend Communion at Easter, these temporary couples would part on the first day of Lent; obtain absolution and, a week afterwards, either cohabit once more or find otherpartners.

  84. Contrasting the Congoese with the Goanese, we obtain a measure of difference between the African and the Asiatic.

  85. In constructing any sort of machine it is usual to first obtain the most important device and then to build up the accompanying parts to that.

  86. To obtain any quantity whatever of this article, each producer must pay, then, first for his own labor, and second for the labor of the other producers.

  87. And what is my object in pleading against property, if not to obtain possession?

  88. The people enrolled themselves under the banners of the ambitious, in order to obtain by force that which the law refused them,--property.

  89. Vivien, then Minister of Justice, who was earnestly solicited to prosecute the author, wished first to obtain the opinion of the economist, Blanqui, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

  90. It necessarily followed that, to obtain equality of products, there must be equality of labor; and that, to obtain equality of labor, there must be equality of facilities for labor.

  91. The poorest citizen can obtain judgment in the courts against one occupying the most exalted station.

  92. It was known that he who should solve the mystery of this name would obtain a knowledge of the whole prophecy, and would succeed in mastering the beast.

  93. Where did the colonists, discharged by the dictator who rewarded them, obtain these things?

  94. When, how, and by what title did they obtain this privilege?

  95. Thus, to obtain as many shoes as can be made from ten hides, the farmer will give thirty raw hides, and the tanner twenty tanned hides.

  96. It is the right to obtain one's share of wealth by fulfilling the required conditions.

  97. Fourier, having to multiply a whole number by a fraction, never failed, they say, to obtain a product much greater than the multiplicand.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accept; achieve; acquire; admit; annex; arouse; assume; bag; borrow; breathe; bring; buy; capture; catch; clear; come; compass; conquer; contract; contrive; corral; deduce; derive; develop; dominate; draw; earn; educe; effect; elicit; employ; enlist; evoke; evolve; exist; extort; extract; fetch; find; gain; get; harvest; have; hold; induce; inspire; instigate; land; lead; line; live; make; motivate; net; obtain; occur; persist; pick; possess; possession; predominate; prevail; procure; provoke; pull; purchase; quarry; raise; reap; receive; reign; retrieve; rouse; rule; sack; score; secure; stand; stimulate; subsist; summon; take; win; bring; buy; capture; catch; clear; come; compass; conquer; contract; contrive; corral; deduce; derive; develop; dominate; draw; earn; educe; effect; elicit; employ; enlist; evoke; evolve; exist; extort; extract; fetch; find; gain; get; harvest; have; hold; induce; inspire; instigate; land; lead; line; live; make; motivate; net; obtain; occur; persist; pick; possess; possession; predominate; prevail; procure; provoke; pull; purchase; quarry; raise; reap; receive; reign; retrieve; rouse; rule; sack; score; secure; stand; stimulate; subsist; summon; take; win


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    obtain employment; obtain food; obtain from; obtain possession; obtain redress; obtain some; obtain the; obtain their; obtain them; obtain what; obtained from; obtained leave; obtained mercy; obtained only; obtained the