Achieved
[ə'tʃiːvd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Achieve
Checker: Rene
Examples
- The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is simply a cursory view of the century in the field of invention, intended to present the broader bird’s-eye view of progress achieved. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They were come to tell her of certain successes they had achieved that morning in applications for subscriptions to the fund. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You achieved distinction, you know, when you were with us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the Fourth of August it achieved a great dramatic success. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Activities as they grow more complicated gain added meaning by greater attention to specific results achieved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Each of these were achieved by working on a definite problem, and in no haphazard way. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hence the lamentable waste in carrying over such expertness as is achieved in dealing with them to the affairs of life beyond the schoolroom. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The profit was merely the condition of victory, but the victory itself lay in the feat achieved. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All who have cared for Fred Vincy and Mary Garth will like to know that these two made no such failure, but achieved a solid mutual happiness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Every end becomes a means of carrying activity further as soon as it is achieved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You have achieved so much, Lady Dedlock, said my guardian, that you pay some little penalty, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the reality of freedom was not achieved by proclamation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let me think what I have achieved. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Since the discovery of the New World no material event has happened on this earth so impressive to the imagination as the conquest of the air which is now half achieved. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This achieved, she jumped from my knee and said, Now, Mademoiselle, I will repeat you some poetry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Having achieved this feat, he sighed again, and applied himself assiduously to the pie. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They worked with a ferocious energy which was out of all proportion to the actual result achieved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They never achieved any unity in India; their history is a history of warring kings and republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the standpoint of the learner scientific form is an ideal to be achieved, not a starting point from which to set out. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Throughout the concluding years of the war he had achieved an unexampled position in the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Italy has achieved the dearest wish of her heart and become an independent State--and in so doing she has drawn an elephant in the political lottery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There are many men of equal bodily and mental vigor who have not achieved a tithe of his accomplishment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The results actually achieved are not the ends of their actions, but only of their employers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the second place, the method of organization of the material of achieved scholarship differs from that of the beginner. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had achieved the business on which he departed long ago. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We ascended the myriad steps together, when on the summit I achieved my design, and in rough figures noted the date of the last year. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Rene