[ UK /ɐt‍ʃˈiːv/ ]
[ US /əˈtʃiv/ ]
VERB
  1. to gain with effort
    she achieved her goal despite setbacks
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How To Use achieve In A Sentence

  • ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
  • A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney 
  • A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney 
  • But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
  • Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering. Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain
  • Collaborative learning was achieved through synchronous as well as asynchronous interactive chats.
  • Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
  • In the postwar years, we have seen some tendencies bypass Stalinism and register important achievements.
  • They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
  • That is a significant achievement, of which the hon. Gentleman should be aware.
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