How to Use attain in a Sentence

attain

verb

• She refused to let the injury keep her from attaining her goal of being in the Olympics.
• This kind of tree can attain a height of 20 feet within just a few years.
• The car can attain a top speed of 200 mph.
• Tether has been steadily plodding up all year, now at the highest market cap that it's ever attained.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
• When medications are harder to attain, people are less likely to get them, which can worsen health outcomes over time.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
• Alabama is expected to win it every year, but perhaps nowhere are the goals more difficult to attain than at Auburn.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2021
• These elite students would have had to complete an examination at the end of their studies to attain their education.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
• Companies that attain the correct data gain the first-mover advantage in capturing customers and market share.
  — Maor Shlomo, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Muggy high temperatures should attain the upper 80s to low 90s.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• Establish realistic targets and get a commitment to attain them so members of your team have ownership.
  — Jason Richmond, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Seeing someone who looks like me attain success in the industry was incredibly inspiring.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 27 Aug. 2021
• Some coaches attain success with a defensive mind-set, hoping to capitalize on opponents’ mistakes, making sure their teams err on the side of caution.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• The 2017 defense might be the most attainable sack distribution to which the current Buckeyes can attain.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
• For many of them, the choice is clear, if hard to attain.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
• Alverno was the first college in the state to attain it.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2022
• There’s the eight-month, 162-game slog to attain a playoff spot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• But the Lakers have to attain their first — reaching the playoffs.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• If Auburn hopes to attain that goal, the defense has some catching up to do.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 21 Sep. 2022
• The push for achievement to attain future success can get in the way of self-love and self-care.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2022
• Song of the Year and Record of the Year — while the album would attain double platinum status.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
• Sharpe is in no rush to capture the stardom he seems destined to attain.
  — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
• Making a bowl game was already the highest goal the Cougars could attain.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• Why shouldn’t people strive to attain new knowledge, a new life?
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Believe it or not, this runway-ready look is quite easy to attain on your own.
  — ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
• And investigators still have to put in the time to solve the case and attain justice.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
• Farrell did not have to sit for hours in a makeup trailer to attain this new look.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 3 May 2024
• Depending on the gene the species attains, will determine the hue and pattern that is present on their wings.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2024
• And in that time, women have attained equally good credit scores as men.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Mar. 2024
• Madonna is now one of only two women to have attained an epic chart record on the Billboard Hot 100.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 14 June 2023
• By the Israeli law of return, all Jews have the right to move to Israel and attain citizenship.
  — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024