Obtaining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBTAINING in dictionary:

VERB:
• OBTAIN, to gain possession of
• get, acquire, or secure (something)
• be prevalent, customary, or established

Words related to OBTAINING

obtain8 obtained11 obtains9

Words that contain OBTAINING

reobtaining14 preobtaining17

How to use OBTAINING in a sentence

• They had more frequently a family and a practically independent household, with no remote prospect of obtaining freedom and property of their own.
• After obtaining his degree he was invited to take charge of the Grammar School in his native place, and raised it from decay.
• Thus you perceive new causes of delay in obtaining any answer from the Government.
• The only difficulty that remains is obtaining funds, which Congress can furnish, to carry it into execution.
• Men who are perfectly agreed as to the importance of the former object, and as to the way of obtaining it, differ as widely as possible respecting the latter object.
• Beholding all these faults, the wise control their anger, desirous of obtaining high prosperity both in this and the other world.
• If there had been time, indeed, she would have preferred obtaining the money in the same manner from any one else.
• Now that there was a probability of obtaining it, she confessed that coffee and bread were the only luxuries she regretted.
• They wanted the Czar deposed, but the monarchy itself retained, subject to constitutional limitations analogous to those obtaining in England.
• After all, you failed in obtaining the secret from her, Sir Rowland.
• Had there existed no other cause, the means of obtaining provision being limited, must have compelled them to separate.
• They were also made quite happy in obtaining the articles of outfit which would render their wild life more agreeable and easy.
• Outdoor sports, like tennis, baseball, and horseback riding are far superior to chestweights or Indian clubs as a means of obtaining normal permanent development.
• Many methods of obtaining this end have been devised, and are in common use both here and abroad.
• The conflict would be adjusted in a quiet and orderly manner by the truth obtaining greater and greater sway over the minds of men.
• Three men, two of them miners, suddenly appeared running towards the gate, and making eager signs to the sentries in the barbican with the view of obtaining speedy admission.
• General Johnston, on his arrival at Nashville, found that he lacked not only men, but the munitions of war and the means of obtaining them.
• The method of obtaining his freedom showed indeed considerable cunning, but also an audacity that was scarcely consistent with sanity.
• This method of obtaining the juice of the palm tree is exactly similar to that which is adopted by the Indians of North America, with respect to the maple tree.
• Enda, and obtaining from him much information relating to his voyage.
• And equally, of course, the publishers of so largely-circulated a work did not succeed in preventing me from obtaining a second copy of it.
• Not long after obtaining my own freedom, I began seriously to think about purchasing the freedom of my family.
• In obtaining and securing their power, the Assembly proceeds upon principles the most opposite from those which appear to direct them in the use of it.
• The Ambassador conceived the idea of obtaining such proof by means of a female witness.
• This he endeavored to remedy by obtaining a promise from the emperor to attend the meeting in person.
• It was useless to think of obtaining a situation like the one he had lost.
• The withdrawal of the Irish members from Westminster might give Ireland the chance of obtaining some of the benefits, and compensate England for some of the evils, of Home Rule.

Similar words containing OBTAIN without suffix ing

obtain8 obtains9 obtained11 obtainer10 reobtain10 obtainers11 preobtain13 reobtains11 obtainable14 obtainment14 preobtains14 reobtained13 unobtained13 obtainments15 preobtained16 reobtaining14 preobtaining17 unobtainable16 obtainability20 obtainabilities19

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