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Example sentences for: gained

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was candor, especially with the press" which "gained him admirers in the news media, if not among his Senate colleagues."
There are many things about modern life--air conditioning (in particular), electricity, indoor plumbing, supermarkets--that make me grateful to be living in the latter half of the 20th century and not back in the antediluvian or “good old” days so often pined for, and one of them is the knowledge (gained from the Introduction) that American newspapers and magazines published numerous short lists of wellerisms during the 19th century.
A third force is often in the news, but the parties pushing for independence — establishing Puerto Rico as a separate nation — have thus far gained only minority support at the polls.
Over the next six days, she gained 20 pounds in fluid weight and had fevers of 103°F despite broad spectrum antibiotics.
In 1932 Portugal gained a new ruler and dictator, ex-Minister of Finance Dr. António Salazar.