attain
Example Sentences
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As I crouched behind a rippling fountain, stretching and contorting my body to attain the correct angle, I began to wonder, “Do the Lumineers think I’m some kind of a lunatic?”
From Los Angeles Times
Leavitt also congratulated President John F. Kennedy and said "this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur".
From BBC
Each has a master’s degree in the computer-science area and each is employed and living in their own condos that we helped them attain with the down payment.
From MarketWatch
That initial public offering was oversubscribed by 2750 times and has increased in value by six times since floating, attaining a market capitalization of around $44 billion.
From MarketWatch
He went on to narrate commercials for Tang, Listerine and Hamilton watches and attain his profession’s double Holy Grail—voicing History Channel shows and the PBS series “Nova.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
