Sentence examples for to attain something from inspiring English sources

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

And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

But that does add to this feeling of struggling against the odds, putting yourself through physical hardship, in order to attain something.

This is a grave weakness (some will think it an invalidating one) but it is also what enables Cimino to attain something approaching the tragic grandeur of a popular epic… The Deer Hunter is a rich and powerful picture that without a trace of patronisation or the slightest touch of cultural superiority, speaks eloquently for the inarticulate.

Mathevon says that the notorious laughing noise hyenas make is actually an expression of not being able to attain something they desire.

We know this is just the beginning of a long fight to attain something that should have been ours from the beginning.

While there have always been familial and social pressures to perform academically, and while some people have always attempted to get or attain something with the least amount of energy expended, I would ask what effects has our age of standardization, corporatization, globalization, privatization, and deregulation of the business, banking, and corporate sectors have on learning?

Other explanations could be that women used control to counter dominant partners, reduce violence, attain something blocked by dominant partners or change the power structure in the relationship, and thereby increased their abuse vulnerability rather than the opposite.

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.

"Let children attain something.

But if this band goes right, it may attain something better than solos and set pieces, which would be constant flexibility.