Example sentences for: acquires

How can you use “acquires” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In fact, completely against type, she acquires an active role in the operation.

  • The federal government, like private corporations and other organizations, acquires facilities to support specific functions and missions and the general conduct of its business.

  • In red and blue neon, even a flat announcement like OPEN acquires a cold yet undeniable fire.

  • My suspicions aroused, I found that a number of entries had neither a nautical origin nor, perceivably, any nautical connection: jingo , offered as probably a Basque word, acquires a nautical connection because Basques were among the earliest organised whalers in Europe, and as harpooners their expressions would have carried some weight with other seafarers.

  • Rather, a common word can become a trademark only if it acquires a “secondary meaning,” if, in other words, it is used so long and so exclusively by one producer that it has come to signal to the general public that the product in question is made by that producer, and that producer alone.


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