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.
  • What does achievement mean to you?
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Sean Paul‘s list of achievements just got longer.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This feels like one of the biggest achievements of my life.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • That achievement is key for his pitch to voters.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And the mayor treats that like an achievement?
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Fifty years of anything is an achievement in academia.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Mitchell’s achievements are a source of pride for his parents.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But the center’s achievements have brought with them new needs.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
  • That won’t take away from the lifetime achievement.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This is a timeline of her achievements.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2026
  • That achievement was decades in the making, and for most of that time seemed a pipe dream.
    — Ed Whelan, National Review, 14 July 2022
  • The biggest achievement came next.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • This is top 3 great achievements of my New York life.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And these are just some of China’s achievements.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Ducks is one of the latter, and marks a new achievement in the memoir genre.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But after the first four batters of the game, that seemed an achievement.
    — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 15 Aug. 2024
  • This had clearly not worked, if the goal was student achievement.
    — Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Winning one of their eight league-phase matches would be an achievement.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That day’s achievement is understood through the flip-side of it.
    — Dave Hyde, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Real achievement in these settings doesn’t come down to skills alone.
    — Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This is an achievement of a whole society.
    — Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The achievement gap widened also in 12th grade math.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Trump brokered a ceasefire, which is no small achievement.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These achievements required not just vision but time.
    — Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That achievement alone places him in rare company.
    — Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Yet the achievement didn't erase the challenges that came with building a life far from home.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • The World Cup is a major achievement.
    — Miami Herald, 17 June 2026

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