Synonym: accomplish, achieve, arrive, come, complete, finish, fulfill, gain, get to, reach, realize. Antonym: fail. Similar words: maintain, attach, attack, attach to, retain, obtain, curtain, sustain. Meaning: [ə'teɪn] v. 1. to gain with effort 2. reach a point in time, or a certain state or level 3. find unexpectedly 4. reach a destination, either real or abstract.
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61. Internally, the mushroom bodies attain great size and complexity in Hymenoptera with elaborate behaviour.
62. An apparently missing tail, for example, will often attain its original size within a couple of weeks.
63. When the movement began they were attracted by a desire to attain certain goals.
64. When migrating, birds may attain a height of three thousand metres or more.
65. Ultimately the individual attempts to attain maturity or mature dependence on other objects in the environment.
66. The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives.
67. It does not exclude anything; but that is not to say that it can attain everything.
68. But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted,[http://sentencedict.com/attain.html] as by the sound of a strain of music dying away.
69. Old age doesn't seem to have much to offer, yet I desperately hope to attain it.
70. Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
71. The drug selected for monotherapy is then added and appropriate dosage adjustment made to attain therapeutic serum levels.
72. Working in coordination with legislators, they establish goals and then organize programs and form policies to attain them.
73. Our aim is to encourage as many as possible to attain various levels within the award scheme.
74. As long as the elements never attain their natural places in an absolute sense, things will continue much as they are.
75. Make specific the goals you need to attain in order to earn each reward.
76. And he will be expected to use that information to improve performance and to help his company attain its strategic goals.
77. The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer
78. In other words, behavior is generally motivated by a desire to attain some goal.
79. It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes.
80. At maximum it may attain magnitude 5, but at minimum it falls to below 12.
81. To attain efficiency, it would be expected that factors of production would be allocated so that their marginal products would be equal.
82. One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom. Allan Lokos
83. In arid and semi-arid regions leaching may be minimal and solutions in the weathering mantle can attain high concentrations of dissolved constituents.
84. Such conditions are commonly associated with deltaic sedimentation which along the Gulf Coast attain thicknesses of 50, 000 feet.
85. Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach?
86. Liquor is a terrible temptation to lonely men cut off from their wives, or fighting for success they can not attain.
87. Andrew Beckett: No. Would it attain you more comfortable?
88. However, we could attain to it by virtuous conducts.
89. To attain full growth, one mustn't be squeamish.
90. He tried in vain to attain to fame.
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