achievement

In a sentence

Six example sentences with achievement, each labelled with its topic.

• Draining the marshes was the region's great achievement, and the canals still carry water three centuries later.

  History

• Finishing the swim in open water was a larger achievement for her than any medal she won on the track.

  Fitness

• Learning the whole cycle from memory by nineteen counts as an achievement even among conservatory pianists.

  Music

• Mapping the whole genome was an achievement that took thirteen years and laboratories on three continents.

  Science

• Raising the dome without wooden scaffolding was the achievement that made Brunelleschi's name across Europe.

  Architecture

• Reaching the final with a roster of walk-ons was a bigger achievement than the title the school won two years later.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains achievement. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• economy
• format
• approximately
• bias
• status
• analysis
• published
• stable
• modify
• scope
• positive
• demonstrated