Words similar to gained

Example sentences for: gained

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

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.
or for emphasis, particularly in rebuttal, as in But I do do it ! We have gained a handy distinction here.
Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.
And, Gaddis concludes, "[T]he Americans lost influence in the Middle East as a result of Suez, while the Russians gained it."
Nonetheless, he does appear to have gained a sense of how the Internet might someday be democratically useful.