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How to use accomplishment in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Accomplishment means the act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment. Example: “Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.”

Examples of accomplishment by meaning

nounThe act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.

  • the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc

nounSomething accomplished; an achievement.

  • Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.

nounThe lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.

  • Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, pages 183-84

More sentences with accomplishment

  • His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.From the entry respectable
  • I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments.From the entry streak
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accomplishments.From the entry accomplishments
  • This accomplishment had been unrepeated, until now.From the entry unrepeated
  • Her LinkedIn includes a laundry list of accomplishments.From the entry LinkedIn
  • How would you frame your accomplishments?From the entry frame
  • My children's accomplishments are my pride.From the entry pride
  • Even with a swollen field, just getting here is an accomplishment.2026 June 21, John Powers, “The World Cup group stage was supposed to be a feeding frenzy. So far, not so much.”, in The Boston Globe…. From the entry cleat
  • Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments.2023 April 11 [2023 April 10], Sarah Elbeshbishi, “Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley slams Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis in campaign…. From the entry highlight
  • JANET: Martin Luther King would have been super-antiracist, but CRT progressives minimize King's accomplishments.2021, Stephen Waters, Individuals, Journalism, and Society Epilogue-Lessons learned. From the entry CRT
  • That landmark has been touted by Chinese state media as a major accomplishment.2017 July 6, Steven Lee Myers, “China Is Challenged on Bid for Unesco Heritage Status in Tibetan Area”, in The New York Times (Asia…. From the entry Gulangyu
  • Was the requestless existence she considered an accomplishment actually a failure?2014, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, chapter 12, in Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, part 2 (2008), page 233. From the entry requestless
  • Will it be the technically wondrous charms of "Benjamin Button" or the actorly accomplishments of "Milk" ?2009 January 2, David Carr, “I'm Trying to See All These Movies. You Want to Talk? Go Home!”, in New York Times. From the entry actorly
  • Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise. From the entry facthood
  • Momzillas are mothers whose lives are defined by their children, and more specifically, by their children's accomplishments.2005, Judith Newman, You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother, New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry momzilla
  • But the ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.2004, Jean-Luc Marion, translated by James K. A. Smith, The Crossing of the Visible, page 38. From the entry ectype
  • It meant that work was done on various jobs with no major accomplishment.2002, Jim Sargent, Too Poor to Move But Always Rich: A Century on Montana Land, Morris Publishing, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry briggle
  • The sense of accomplishment is yours to enjoy, and nobody can steal your thunder.2001, Holly Bergeim, The Customized No No-Nos Weight Loss Plan, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry steal someone's thunder
  • Disclaimer: While I admire the man's accomplishments, I am not a Teslaphile.1993 September 13, Kevin D Quitt, “Looking for analysis of Tesla Turbines”, in sci.physics (Usenet). From the entry Teslaphile
  • Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.1981 May 31, Robert Palmer, “Two Icons of Rock Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023. From the entry icon
  • Nobody, unless he be a floogy boogy bird, who has been watching the accomplishments of the N.1942, N.A.R.D. Journal - Volume 64, page 489. From the entry floogy
  • To those other, those so august, accomplishments she no more pretended.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry give the go-by
  • The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments.1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014, Part 2, Chapter 1.. From the entry reputed
  • “My gentle spirit is roused to the accomplishment of great things.1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance. From the entry capataz
  • Crockett by touting his leadership and accomplishments in Texas.2025 March 26, Lalee Ibssa and Jon Haworth, “Rep. Jasmine Crockett defends 'Governor Hot Wheels' comments about Abbott amid censure…. From the entry Abbott
  • When some libertarians talk about the great accomplishments we’re seeing on foreign policy, I don’t know what they’re talking about.2018, David Weigel, “The new ‘Dr. No’: Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress”, in Washington Post. From the entry drone
  • But what, more precisely, distinguishes such an actual perception from a solely possible perception if not its accomplishment hic et nunc?2015, Burt Hopkins, Steven Crowell, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, →ISBN. From the entry hic et nunc
  • Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times. From the entry bandwagoner
  • But I appreciate your race's many accomplishments, all things considered.2015, Genevieve Jack, Logan: A Knight World Novel, Carpe Luna Publishing, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry humanphobe
  • Climbing trees was an accomplishment of Alexander's, but the sloe-bush seemed to him dense, prickly and not quite assailable.2015, H.E. Bates, Seven Tales and Alexander, →ISBN. From the entry sloe-bush
  • Always a glory boy, Jones worked hard at keeping his name and accomplishments under the noses of the higher ups.2015, Gini Rifkin, Solace. From the entry glory boy
  • The older heads with idlesome ideas are thinning out, consequently with each new generation will come more and greater accomplishments.2012, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, John A. Kirk, Arsnick. From the entry idlesome
  • If these “Octopusical” projects are not closed, they continue to consume time and resources while detracting from valuable accomplishments.2009, Deji Badiru, Getting Things Done Through Project Management, page 30. From the entry octopusical
  • Saakashvili rhymed off a list of his government's accomplishments.2008 January 4, Jane Armstrong, “Is life any better in Georgia, ‘beacon of democracy’?”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2009. From the entry rhyme off
  • Blasis was a man of many accomplishments.2007, Gayle Kassing, History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach, page 134. From the entry attitude
  • No other Black man in history has pulled off such a “prehumous” accomplishment (as distinct from a posthumous elegy).2002, The International Journal of African Studies, page 19. From the entry prehumous
  • The renaissance of a native literature, a by-product of the movement, was thus its first and most tangible accomplishment.1985, Tadeusz Swietochowski, “A century of Russian rule”, in Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim…. From the entry Classical Azerbaijani

Meaning of accomplishment

  1. noun The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
  2. noun That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
  3. noun Something accomplished; an achievement.

Full definition of accomplishment

Questions about accomplishment in a sentence

How do you use accomplishment in a sentence?
Accomplishment is used as a noun. For example: “Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.”
What is a short sentence with accomplishment?
“How would you frame your accomplishments?”
What does accomplishment mean?
Accomplishment means the act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accomplishment (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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