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.
• 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
• Marketers can attain all three of these goals with Pins.
  — Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• 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
• Famous explores the dark side of celebrity and the lengths people will go to attain it.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
• The very best teams have one thing that the merely good can never quite attain: agency.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• Why shouldn’t people strive to attain new knowledge, a new life?
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• In many industries, the skills gap starts with an awareness gap of both the careers and how to attain them.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• 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
• It’s time-consuming but worth the effort to attain the fine straws needed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• In a 16-team league with those two programs added to the mix, there is nothing the Big Ten can do now or in the future to attain status as equals.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
• 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
• How did China attain such dominance across the board in rare earths?
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
• And Kalmanovich, the man who helped Sue Bird attain millionaire status?
  — Christine Mui, Fortune, 8 July 2022
• The growing corporate adoption of Bitcoin shows that the cryptocurrency, once dismissed as a passing fad, has attained a semblance of mainstream legitimacy.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• Since the beginning of Covid-19, transportation teams have had a challenging time attaining desirable contract utilization from freight carriers due to spiky volatility in freight rates.
  — Edmund Zagorin, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025