"gain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They gain sustenance by draining energy from intelligent beings; the subject so affected bursts into flames as if experiencing spontaneous combustion.
- Your young people are rapidly becoming the new 'Irish', emigrating away from their homes to gain sustenance as laborers.
- What dost thou know of the struggle to gain sustenance, generation on generation, on our harsh and stony worlds, as I have known it?
- Initially, scientists thought that microbes there gained sustenance only from sulfur.
- Some of us gain sustenance and hope by believing in an all-seeing and all-forgiving deity and the promise of another existence free of anguish.
- Spirits gain sustenance by feeding on the concepts they represent.
- Unlike vampires, they gain sustenance from a person's breath, as opposed to their blood, by riding their victims.
- Any way to gain sustenance was grudgingly welcome, especially when the local fruit and berry patches were picked out and pie trees were between pies.
- New Yorkers, it is often remarked, gain sustenance from irritation.
- In return for providing massive firepower, the Skrill gained sustenance and a means of getting from place to place.
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