Sentence examples for attained something like from inspiring English sources

It was then that secular autobiographies — we call them memoirs — first attained something like their contemporary prominence.

Most graphic novelists tend to be dismissive of such products, but a couple of people have emerged from the factory system and attained something like auteur status -- as writers whose comics are worth paying attention to no matter who draws them.

More important, however, was his form in the longest version of the game, in which he had attained something like a peak.

You might just have imagined him, a decade on, as one of Britain's most influential pop stars, but you would have got long odds indeed on him ever attaining something like national treasure status, which he also appears to have done: performing the anthem of the England World Cup team, palling around with Prince Harry, appearing on Newsnight to discuss Barack Obama's election.

If you attained something then you were going to be first".

Even managers at the more staid tech funds have attained something of a celebrity status.

During the spring election Layton attained something rare: the true fear of his Conservative opponents.

The experts in these communities can attain something of a god-like status to worshipping noobs and junior members who get thoughtful and detailed answers to their many questions.

There is a moral magnitude and a weary, melancholy wisdom in Sebald's writing that transcends the literary and attains something like an oracular register.

"Let children attain something.

"I was trying to attain something, but too much thought was going into it.