Sample Sentences foraccolade (editor-reviewed)
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The Heisman Trophy is the highest accolade in college football.accolade = award or public praise
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You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with "personality," and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. (source)accolade = public praise
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And though she was granted many accolades— including an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—she never once accepted the invitations to speak at universities and museums. (source)accolades = public praise and/or awards
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Accolades just wash off them, they shy away from the spotlight, but in the end they have one precious reward-when their days of combat are over, they know precisely who they are and what they stand for. (source)
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After he finished his wine, Wade would call them and receive their accolades.† (source)
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"I assume your accolades will be forthcoming in writing," Mama replied.† (source)
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He duly accepted their accolades and then walked clumsily away, as if his boots were made of lead.† (source)
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Everyone screamed, "Connor!" who received the accolade with typical bravura, wiping away fake tears.† (source)
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They serve their term, they collect their accolades, and then they go forth into the world to make money.† (source)
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It seemed he could see the crystal light still, in the sardonic hall of his memory; hear the shout of accolade, empty in a husked land that stood even then hopeless against a gray ocean of time.† (source)
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Even though they had put the past behind them, Shawn had remained understandably skeptical throughout Adam's attempts at sobriety and had withheld any accolades—until now.† (source)
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Tonight, three thousand miles from home, the accolade had resurfaced to haunt him at the lecture he had given.† (source)
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And every time she'd risen to a new thousand, she received so many accolades, and felt she was repaying Annie in particular, that it drove her on.† (source)
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He was devout in his desire to be a good man; he would bestow the accolade of his love upon nothing but a Virgin; he would marry himself to none but a Pure Woman.† (source)
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This work is about the "long run," not just for today, for any possible accolades or to meet funding deadlines—but for the adequate and full protection, health and balance, as Native elders say, of our young people seven generations from now.† (source)
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And while she did, she found herself agreeing with Sarah's accolade.† (source)
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