grand achievement

Example Sentences

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But in my homemade version of that bread, the deeply browned crust is a grand achievement, a source of inordinate pride, thanks to a full cup of maple syrup.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

There was no grand achievement, no banner earned, no trophy lifted.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2018

But for too many years, that grand achievement had them—or at least their employers, France’s Pasteur Institute in Paris for Barré-Sinoussi and the U.S.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2016

The Della Robbia helps illuminate Donatello's grand achievement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2015

He had come prepared to admire the grand achievement of Burnham’s army of workers but instead found himself troubled by what he saw in the stark frozen landscape.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson