ATTAINMENT in a Sentence
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131 example sentences for ATTAINMENT, such as:
1. He attained the position of minister.
2. The attainment of the success is not easy.
3. He attained a good old age and died content.
4. Eventually, the star attained the velocity of light.
5. The end of all scholarly attainment is to live nobly.
2. The attainment of the success is not easy.
3. He attained a good old age and died content.
4. Eventually, the star attained the velocity of light.
5. The end of all scholarly attainment is to live nobly.
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Meanings and Examples of ATTAINMENT
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attainment
n. an ability that has been acquired by training
n. arrival at a new stage
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1 And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant.
2 Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
3 There never was or could have been such an aim, for it would have been senseless and its attainment quite impossible.
4 His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
5 In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
6 Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.
7 D'Artagnan bowed without replying, feeling his desire to don the Musketeer's uniform vastly increased by the great difficulties which preceded the attainment of it.
8 The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him.
9 Placing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending higher, attained the desired position beside the coachman.
10 Thus, in time, his gains attained the amount of five roubles; whereupon he made himself a purse and then started to fill a second receptacle of the kind.
11 Nor can any one but God say to what a figure the fortunes of the pair might not eventually have attained, had not an awkward contretemps cut right across their arrangements.
12 Eventually the youth's aversion almost attained the point of hysteria; until he felt that, come what might, he MUST insult the fellow in some fashion.
13 That is to say, things are to be attained only by putting forth one's whole strength, since nothing short of one's whole strength will bring one to the desired goal.
14 Being accustomed to make conquests, in this instance, too, he soon attained his object, but his easy success did not damp his ardour.
15 He loves the process of attaining, but does not quite like to have attained, and that, of course, is very absurd.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 The attainment of the success is not easy.
2 Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
3 The end of all scholarly attainment is to live nobly.
4 He attained a good old age and died content.
5 Eventually, the star attained the velocity of light.
6 The judges decided to exclude evidence which had been unfairly attained.
7 He attained the position of minister.
8 The famous writer is still sharp in thought though he has attained the age of ninety-two.
9 Bessie's accounts of school-discipline were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishment attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.
10 The scarecrow sought to attain one goal: he wished to obtain a brain.
11 He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make men or boys covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
12 He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
13 Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
14 The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and thedetermination to attain it.
15 The imnportant thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.