Sample Sentences forattain (editor-reviewed)
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She was the first woman to attain the rank of general.attain = gain or reach something with effort
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They hope to attain effective law and order in the region before withdrawing troops.
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When Walt and Billie suggested that he needed a college degree to attain a fulfilling career, Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you. (source)attain = achieve
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Jack drew up his legs, clasped his knees, and frowned in an effort to attain clarity. (source)attain = gain or reach something with effort
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It is something that some writers reach for their entire careers and never attain. (source)attain = achieve
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Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. (source)attain = achieve (gain or reach with effort)
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He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. (source)attained = achieved (gained with effort)
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Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it (source)attain = gain or reach something with effort
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Theo nodded, awed by the beautiful Angela, three years older than he, so fair-skinned and blonde, so unattainable. (source)unattainable = beyond his reachstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattainable means not and reverses the meaning of attainable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Dinosaurs mature rapidly, attaining full size in two to four years. (source)attaining = obtaining
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It involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with one's circumstances, and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity.† (source)
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Their educational attainments were noted, marriages followed, illnesses tabulated, psychological health charted, and every promotion and job change dutifully recorded.† (source)
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There, I lusted after the unattainable Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra, and, years later, lusted after others, oh so attainable.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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He attains celebrity status with his evening game of Crazy Cat.† (source)
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Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd, The seas all cross'd, weather'd the capes, the voyage done, Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd, As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found, The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.† (source)
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For in Florence I had at once a wife and an unattained mistress—that is what it comes to—and in the retaining of her in this world I had my occupation, my career, my ambition.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattained means not and reverses the meaning of attained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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