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Example sentences for "obtain food"

  • Having done this, and being provided with a sling and with stones, he asked his father in what direction he should go to obtain food.

  • Rats which were normally right handed were forced to modify their handedness in order to obtain food.

  • Animals were trained over a period of 4 to 5 days to climb a steeply inclined wire to obtain food.

  • In these experiments the subjects must discriminate between different speeds of rotation in order to obtain food reinforcement.

  • In the days of Adam Smith it had not yet been suggested that men began by the cultivation of rich soils, and then passed to poor ones, with constantly diminishing power to obtain food.

  • However prevalent the experience of starvation may be in the life of an animal, it is not pleasant to think of subjecting it to extreme hunger in the laboratory for the sake of finding out what it can do to obtain food.

  • In order to obtain food it must pass through A and choose either the orange or the blue box.

  • The systematic records which I have kept indicate that the mice remain quietly in their nests during the greater part of the day, unless they are disturbed or come out to obtain food.

  • The parents must therefore be in a position to obtain food rapidly, and consequently it is important that there should be an ample supply in the vicinity of the nest.

  • Much, then, will depend upon the distance the parents have to travel in order to obtain food.

  • If, then, the conditions in the external environment were such as would make it difficult for the female to obtain food rapidly, what advantage would she derive from so strongly developed an impulse?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtain food" 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:
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