All 3 Uses of
attain
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She was self-absorbed and self-approving because she had attained that quality of sentimentality.†
Chpt 4 *attained = gained or reached something with effort
- We got started about seven-fifteen, prob'ly seven-twenty, because I had to stop and fill the radiator, and we ran along, just keeping up a good steady gait——" Mr. Dyer did finally, for reasons and purposes admitted and justified, attain to New Wurttemberg.†
Chpt 4attain = gain or reach something with effort
- But she also discovered that business women may have friendships and enmities as frankly as men and may revel in a bliss which no housewife attains—a free Sunday.†
Chpt 37attains = gains or reaches something with effort
Definition:
to gain or reach something with effort