Sample Sentences for

accede

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(editor-reviewed)

The council was reluctant to accede, but public pressure was overwhelming.

My friends, I come to you with a terrible request, but one which I have no choice but to accede to. The Nazis have ordered me to give them seven thousand Jews, to be deported from the Krakow ghetto tomorrow morning.  (source) Alan Gratz, Prisoner B-3087, 2013

What could she do but accede, praying that her father would live until her return?  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, 1999

I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

Their first mistake was acceding to Rachel's wishes in inviting her old friends to her twenty-second birthday party: the same crew who had celebrated the first time-irrepressible Niki, Don Stewart and his friend Howard, Kathi Obeg and Marta Tyn, her best friend Linna McKyler-all of them then just out of college, shucking off cocoons of childhood for new lives.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Pelcovits accedes.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

I whispered Catherine that she mustn't, on any account, accede to the proposal: it was entirely out of the question.  (source) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, 1846

"That's true," he acceded, his eyes guarded.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

How can I thank you for acceding to my request?†  (source) Agatha Christie, Murder On The Orient Express, 1934

But she accedes to his wishes, as do I. As long as you can, you will please the father, the most holy and fragile animal.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

What would you have proposed, Maximilian, had you found me willing to accede?  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

I reluctantly acceded; I yearned to spend my second night of freedom under my own roof.  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

Upon the king’s death, his daughter acceded to the throne.

The prince was next in line and expected to accede when the queen stepped down.

Emblem of general maternity lifted above all, Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons, Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing, Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855