Example Sentences

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But in a reflection of the parents, the show largely ignores the kids until finally bringing them forward and attaining a novelistic quality that separates it from so many less-bingeable series.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Few of King’s staff supported the effort, worrying that the strike — and the planned Poor People’s Campaign in Washington — distracted from the main goal of attaining voting and political rights for Black Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

You say you’ve read it’s possible to pursue an early retirement after attaining $2 million, and that may very well be the case for some people.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

Given he's had four top-10s in the last eight US Opens, the chances are he'll join McIlroy in attaining membership of that elite club of six men some time soon.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende