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Example sentences for "might obtain"

  • But he went to the shrine of Durga in the Vindhya hills, and throwing himself down on a bed of darbha-grass, he performed asceticism without taking food, in order that he might obtain wealth.

  • And he asked the Brahmans in his affliction if there was any expedient by which he might obtain a large number of children.

  • Lieutenant Manby of the Minerva found himself the occupier of the shed with the old horse, and I was beginning to hope that I might obtain a berth in the house, when, lo and behold!

  • Here might be a speedy conclusion to all our hopes of prize-money--not that we cared for the paltry sum the vessel in sight might have given us, but for what we might obtain by our cruise altogether.

  • Tom got Casey and Peter to lift him up on their shoulders that he might obtain thereby a wider view, but nowhere was a stream or lake to be seen.

  • Hoping that it might afford us some shelter, and at all events that we might obtain water, we steered towards it.

  • I was afraid that I should be too late to shoot any; though I might obtain water, food would be wanting.

  • But still it was satisfactory to be near the water, so that I might obtain as much as we required.

  • Should that fail me, I could not tell how I might obtain food.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might obtain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    because then; might appear; might happen; might have been the; might kill; might know; might make; might mean; might naturally; might need; might possibly; might prove; might redeem; might require; might speak; might take; mighty arms; mighty army; mighty glad; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty hunter; mighty king; mighty nice; mighty sight; would know