Sample Sentences for
acclaim
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    She was chosen by acclaim to be the next chairperson.
    acclaim = choosing without opposition or formal vote
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    Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself.  (source)
    acclaim = enthusiastic choice without a formal vote
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    It must have been a decade since the Count had first promised himself to read this work of universal acclaim that his father had held so dear.  (source)
    acclaim = enthusiastic public praise
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    I want Lady Lysa and her son to acclaim Joffrey as king, to swear fealty, and to—†  (source)
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    By 1932, the modest, mild-tempered Cunningham, whose legs and back were covered in a twisting mesh of scars, was becoming a national sensation, soon to be acclaimed as the greatest miler in American history.  (source)
    acclaimed = popularly and enthusiastically praised
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    Can I not, like Pasta, Malibran, Grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which I shall be indebted to no one but myself; and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers?†  (source)
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    Let's see if there's any valiant acclamation to this.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    That was received with hoarse acclaims by all except Gulden.†  (source)
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    Plotinus came close to acclaiming Plato as the savior of humanity.†  (source)
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    After the meal the job was mine by general acclaim.†  (source)
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    Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions.  (source)
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    His proposal was received with acclamations, and executed with the swiftness of thought.†  (source)
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    One man will write it—a dead man—and late at night when they are very tired, they'll pass it by acclamation.†  (source)
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