Example Sentences

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Their bedroom may be cluttered with all manner of diversion and playthings, but what they really want is that shiny, as-yet unattained object — Rick Caruso! — beckoning from behind glass.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026

Beard is in his first season with the Longhorns after taking Texas Tech to previously unattained heights.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2021

He would list the NFL MVP award among his unattained feats.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017

Bangladesh's success in sanitation — something so far unattained by its wealthier neighbor to the south, India — came from a dogged campaign supported by 25 percent of the country's overall development budget.

From US News • Jul. 16, 2016

Blessed Shades Heroic and Divine, as when, in days When Man was young, and Time, the vivid thought Translated into Form the unattained Impossible Beauty of men's dreams, and fixed The Loveliness in marble.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir