- present tense form of attain (3rd person singular).
attains
Example Sentences
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Palms provide materials including rattans, oils, and dates.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
We peered across thick stands of trees where Walter had taken us foraging for edible palms and rattans, and bamboos with liquid inside.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014
There is a neat low seat, made of rattans, for each person in the canoe.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil
The trace was en crémaillère, the section being 6 feet thick at the top and 8 feet high, the exterior face vertical, with a revetment of bamboos fastened together with rattans.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
A very large trade with Western countries and the United States is carried on in canes and rattans, the principal centres of the trade being Batavia, Sarawak, Singapore, Penang and Calcutta.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
