Example sentences for: achieves

How can you use “achieves” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.

  • Some of the museum’s most visited rooms are to come: In his graceful Allegory of Spring (1478) and the almost too famous but undyingly delightful Birth of Venus, Botticelli achieves an enchanting mixture of sensuality and purity.

  • In evaluating a Social Security reform proposal, it is important to consider that increasing national saving is one criterion in assessing the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency.

  • "[A]fter all this time, a role that suits his rocklike demeanor perfectly and makes virtues of his expressive limitations" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Slow-paced and minimalist, the film is hailed as an anti-blockbuster: It "achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth ...

  • But although the sequence achieves near perfection in prosodic matching, the grammar is hardly Fry's: turning is more plausibly active than passive, with for in its familiar support-oriented role, in favor of.


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