Sentence examples for were attaining from inspiring English sources
verb
To accomplish; to achieve.
- To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.
80% of adolescents were attending school, and they were attaining approximately the recommended age for grade attainment, with girls doing better in this regard than boys.
Meanwhile, athletes were attaining unprecedented speeds on the Whistler track.
A 12-horsepower Kohler engine was installed after 1967, when Detroit's muscle cars were attaining gorilla power.
Athletes were attaining speeds at the Whistler Sliding Center far exceeding what the track was designed for, but the track was not the problem.
But Olympic and luge officials chose not to make changes to the course that would limit the record speeds — in excess of 90 miles per hour, or 145 kilometers per hour — that the sliding-sport athletes were attaining.
He strutted a bit more, his manner grew more pompous, and he also clearly saw advancement of his career in the hero image of him that Vann was projecting and in the fact that his division was killing Vietcong on a scale that none of the other divisions were attaining.
Altitudes as high as 20,000 feet were attained.
Remarkable recovery, repeatability and reproducibility were attained.
But they will conveniently omit how these victories were attained.
All the chemicals were attained from Sigma.
After approximately three months, IM-resistant cells were attained.
