OBTAIN in a Sentence

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257 example sentences for OBTAIN, such as:
1. I haven't been able to obtain that book.
2. His charge was to obtain specific information.
3. You can also obtain knowledge through practice.
4. Bonacieux, he could obtain no intelligence of her.
5. The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
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 Meanings and Examples of OBTAIN
obtain
 v.  receive a specified treatment (abstract)
 v.  be valid, applicable, or true
Classic Sentence: (205 in 14 pages)
1  He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
2  They managed to obtain the address: Monsieur, Monsieur Thenardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
3  Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; she went from house to house.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
4  After all it was a ruse of the Thenardiers to obtain money.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
5  At the same time, he reckoned himself as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
6  Their very mothers did not obtain permission to embrace them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
7  In Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had sold an old horse in order to obtain bread.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
8  They plundered the timber-yard in the Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
9  It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
10  Our best-born and richest gentlemen sometimes solicit it without being able to obtain it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE AUDIENCE
11  D'Artagnan and Cahusac sprang forward at the same instant, the one to recover, the other to obtain, the sword; but d'Artagnan, being the more active, reached it first and placed his foot upon it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
12  "At least you should tell me what I should have to do in London," replied Bonacieux, who remembered a little too late that Rochefort had desired him to endeavor to obtain his wife's secrets.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
13  Bonacieux, he could obtain no intelligence of her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
14  The perfidious deceiver was, as may plainly be perceived, already sacrificing, in intention, the poor girl in order to obtain Milady, willy-nilly.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
15  If you repent of the manner in which you have acted toward me, the young girl who brings you this will tell you how a man of spirit may obtain his pardon.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  I haven't been able to obtain that book.
2  First editions of these books are now almost impossible to obtain.
3  I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
4  Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results.
5  The local authority may assist you to obtain alternative accommodation.
6  The aim is to help patients to obtain most benefit from their treatment.
7  Ask an insurance broker to obtain some illustrations for you to compare.
8  Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors.
9  The police are trying to obtain a more accurate picture of crime levels.
10  The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
11  Journalists often use subterfuge to obtain material for stories.
12  You can also obtain knowledge through practice.
13  He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.
14  If you are unable to obtain the information you require, consult your telephone directory.
15  His charge was to obtain specific information.