Obtains is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBTAINS in dictionary:

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

Words related to OBTAINS

obtain8 obtained11 obtaining12

Words that contain OBTAINS

reobtains11 preobtains14

How to use OBTAINS in a sentence

• A country is one nation only when such a condition obtains in it.
• In their recesses he hunts the animals whose flesh and furs supply him with food and clothing, and from their wood he obtains the implements for capturing and subduing them.
• No general character obtains for that of the whole State.
• Projecting below the level of the lower surface of the shoe, it imparts the concussion it thus obtains directly to the sole.
• If it there likewise obtains a two thirds vote, it becomes a law, in spite of the objections.
• On bathing they lay aside this garment, and he who obtains possession of it has them in his power.
• Because of this, a premium is placed upon strength, and so long as the struggle for food and shelter obtains, just so long will the average strength of each generation increase.
• By this, he obtains the merit of horse-sacrifice, and acquires great success.
• By this, O king, one at once obtains, O Bharata, the merit of giving away a thousand kine.
• The universal fondness for European titles that obtains here, is also remarkable.
• CHAPTER XLVI IN WHICH GEOFFREY RAVENSLEE OBTAINS HIS OBJECT Mrs.
• The French envoy at Naples demands and obtains an audience of the King.
• I have thus given the reader a sketch of the most gorgeous church in Paris, that he may get an idea of the style of religion which obtains at present there.
• The price this collection obtains among book-collectors is excessive.
• He asks bread of the baker, or from the housekeepers of the city, and obtains his clothing in the same way.
• On account of lack of early instruction, many a girl obtains wrong ideas regarding this function and it produces in her a feeling of repugnance.
• But a legend obtains belief with some that Roman soldiers first brought with them to England the seeds of this plant, and sowed it about for their personal uses.
• The more minute and full the information of this sort is which he thus obtains, the better.
• Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy.
• By prâna he obtains immortality in the other world, by knowledge true conception.
• Having taken possession of the nose, he obtains all odors.
• You have now come to years when a man obtains his reflection, boy, and I expect suitable care and discretion about the premises, while my back is turned.
• The Australian male almost invariably obtains his wife or wives either as the survivor of a married brother, or in exchange for his sisters, or later on in life for his daughters.
• And this is proved by the fact that when he obtains the power, he immediately becomes unjust as far as he can be.
• Truly, virtue is its own reward, for it obtains no other.
• Of this moral education I may observe here, that it is universal among the society, or that it obtains where the individuals are considered to be true Quakers.
• All the silver that Nueva-Espana obtains now comes from its own provinces, or is brought from the provinces of Peru.
• Redmond, and obtains the acquiescence of the rest of the Coalition.
• It is indeed a great source of attraction to those who go to the Exhibition for the first time, but it is doubtful whether it obtains such admiration afterwards.

Similar words containing OBTAIN without suffix s

obtain8 obtained11 obtainer10 reobtain10 obtainers11 obtaining12 preobtain13 reobtains11 obtainable14 obtainment14 preobtains14 reobtained13 unobtained13 obtainments15 preobtained16 reobtaining14 preobtaining17 unobtainable16 obtainability20 obtainabilities19

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