Example Sentences

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Bashed a former columnist for this newspaper: “As near as I can tell, the only important thing the Citizens for More Important Things have in mind is attaining a level of self-aggrandizement …”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2017

“The compelling interest you identify is attaining a critical mass of minority students at the University of Texas, but you won’t tell me what the critical mass is,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2015

A key step in women's progress toward top legal posts is attaining partnership in the large, traditional law firms that dominate lucrative corporate practice and carry considerable prestige within the profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

And suppose that one of the two exceeds the other, yet as he is attaining his object he will not find fault with his friend, for good is the object of each party.

From Ethics by Aristotle

The number of accidental deaths in France is attaining alarming proportions.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 by Seaman, Owen, Sir