was achieving
- past progressive of achieve.
Example Sentences
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"I was not that bad. The truth is, I was achieving a lot on hard and grass courts but, because I was winning on clay, people considered me a clay-court player."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Trunk, branches, leaves and night sky form an intricate pattern, creating the taut balance between image and abstract form that O’Keeffe was achieving in many of her paintings of the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Akers had not only managed to replicate the natural process—she was achieving survival rates far higher than in the wild.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
His goal was achieving an “evergreen quality,” as he puts it, not least because he knows that might ensure that the songs find new audiences as successive generations of kids age out of the album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
The train wasn't coming back, and standing there was achieving nothing, so I struck out toward the biggest mound.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
