Example Sentences

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I am acquiring a sad habit of day-dreaming, or, rather, my mind has not yet recovered its tone.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

You," said I, in the new tongue which I am acquiring, "wanchee know one piecee information b'long my pidgin.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

I am, indeed, almost bewildered with the mass of information I am acquiring.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard

I know every one in the place and feel that I am acquiring the local accent through my prolonged conversations with the natives.

From Sweetapple Cove by Van Schaick, George

I have had to orchestrate and write out all the music myself, and incidentally I am acquiring some interesting and practical knowledge of "the brasses."

From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine