How to Use achievement in a Sentence

achievement

noun
  • It was a great achievement.
  • Getting the project done on time was a real achievement.
  • The discovery of DNA was a major scientific achievement.
  • Unless Congress acts by the end of this year, three achievements of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs ...
    Ryan Ellis, National Review, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That day’s achievement is understood through the flip-side of it.
    Dave Hyde, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This achievement garnered cheers and claps from the cast and crew of the show, who then sang happy birthday to a smiling Bill.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Over the years, Mae has been by her mom's side to celebrate career achievements.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Approaching the work with these learnings, at the point of achievements but also of mistakes.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Lee's achievement will go down in history as only the third holiday song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • For now, Hamas will likely continue to double down on its rhetoric and sing the praises of its achievements.
    Nelly Lahoud, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Student achievement and engagement are always at the top of my list.
    Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This success was the springboard for other achievements.
    Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 9 June 2023
  • Saturn rules Capricorn which craves achievement, and Aquarius, which wants to bring about a better world.
    Emily Newhouse, Allure, 15 June 2023
  • After the achievement, Spotify gifts artists the Billions Club plaque.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • She was also awarded the 2018 Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Every achievement feels like one step forward, and then two steps backwards.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • With roles in Mare of Easttown and Smile (2022), she’s made a name for herself as an actress — and her parents couldn’t be prouder of her achievements.
    Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The real achievement is that the quality of that work is so consistently high.
    David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • Roots of Peace presented Grgich with a lifetime achievement award in 2022.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • There are achievements in the way of having overcome slavery and torture—for the most part, by no means entirely, but seeing it as bad.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Ukraine takes great pride in its sporting achievements, and its athletes often come back with medals from both Winter and Summer Olympics.
    Alex Holmes, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Even for me, whose greatest culinary achievement is making scrambled eggs for breakfast, the steps were easy to follow.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The game’s most astonishing achievement comes after the credits roll.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The move comes in an election year when the Biden-Harris campaign is working to demonstrate achievements in their climate agenda.
    Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This achievement marked the beginning of the end for widespread use of two-stroke engines in professional racing.
    Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
  • Each week, The Baltimore Sun will recognize one high school player from a boys sport and one from a girls sport for their athletic achievements.
    Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The achievement would be impossible to replicate with mental health staff alone, said Hubbell with the Department of Health Services.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Related Machel Montano received a lifetime achievement award and also won male artist of the year (soca).
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Achieving the first and second goals will require higher spending, which will fuel inflation and thus prevent the achievement of the third goal.
    Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That question, in some ways, has been a driving force in his career, which has included many of the most notable achievements in astrophysics.
    Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024

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