Example sentences for: gotten

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

  • Margaret Nicholson, in her 1957 book, A Dictionary of American-English Usage (based on Fowler), pointed out that Gotten still holds its ground in American English, and she adds that there is a popular superstition that got is less refined than gotten .

  • It hasn't gotten nearly the attention that Mike Lind's book has, but A Better War deserves strong consideration by anyone still interested in Vietnam.

  • Gates and Appiah must be quite the field marshals to have hustled together this army of academics and to have gotten the work from them on time or nearly so.

  • The people of this country have gotten over their racial sickness.

  • The problem here is that Russia hasn't gotten rid of its, er.ice cream machines.


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