How to Use attainment in a Sentence

attainment

noun
  • Her scientific attainments have made her quite well-known in the field of biology.
  • She values educational attainment above all else.
  • The goal needs to be attainment, or making sure students are at grade level.
    — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 15 June 2018
  • The attainment of inner and outer peace is your supreme value.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Courtship is so easy, the attainment so easy, their bodies so fortunate.
    — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Continue to work toward attainment of your plans and goals.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The degree attainment helps shed light on the reasons people choose to labor longer.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Duckett credits her rise through the ranks and attainment of success to her parents.
    — Essence, 10 July 2023
  • Five out of the nine are in the top ten lowest for rates of higher education attainment.
    — Hank Sanders, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And daily life has its way of interfering with goal attainment.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Imagination was never high on their list of attainments or virtues.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2018
  • For those of us who are ambitious, this can be devastating to goal attainment.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Again, a system that disguises a student’s lack of skill attainment is not kind, but cruel.
    — Carrie Lukas, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Rather, it was based on wide-ranging surveys that happened to touch on both child savings and college attainment.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Placed in this context, the summiting of Denali is but one of many attainments.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Trump ran through some of the achievements of this year’s class, from football wins to attainment of a Rhodes scholarship by one.
    — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
  • Mesa has one of the lowest rates of higher education attainment in the region.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Success is also determined by attainment of the high school degree.
    — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2021
  • At the same time, our incentive-and-reward system needs to shift from preparation to attainment.
    — Chester E. Finn Jr., National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Some educators worry the quota law will lower the state’s attainment rate even more.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • Or lauding his attainment of the nation’s highest office without much schooling at all?
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Educational attainment is a key predictor of how a young person will fare in life.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Wendell Hardin, the city’s ozone attainment program manager, said part of that is due to a cold front that was over the area during that time.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The comedian discusses his less-than-graceful attainment of years, and its effects on his knees.
    — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Lake County has the lowest adult college attainment, at 20%.
    — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Younger people fared better on the quiz than older people, but the gaps were less stark than those found with educational attainment.
    — Marie C. Baca, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The past few years have seen a growing interest in raising the shui ping, or level of attainment, of the Chinese consumer.
    — Yiren Lu, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Some of you may even find that someone behind the scenes has been rooting for you and secretly clicks the pieces into place to guide you to the attainment of a goal close to your heart.
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
  • Focusing on individuals and their skills gaps instead of starting with the needs of the team can derail goal attainment.
    — Jennifer Garrard, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Women are -- because their graduate degree attainment increased over the last 30 years at a much higher pace than men.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023

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