accolade

in a sentence

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) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

Tonight, three thousand miles from home, the accolade had resurfaced to haunt him at the lecture he had given.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"I assume your accolades will be forthcoming in writing," Mama replied.†  (source) Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry, 1994

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) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

And while she did, she found herself agreeing with Sarah's accolade.†  (source) Nora Roberts, Summer Pleasures, 2002

He duly accepted their accolades and then walked clumsily away, as if his boots were made of lead.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

Everyone screamed, "Connor!" who received the accolade with typical bravura, wiping away fake tears.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Hound of Rowan, 2007

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) Eric Blehm, Fearless, 2012

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) Stephen King, The Gunslinger, 1981

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) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992

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) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

He shrugged as if modesty prevented him from accepting their accolades.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

"Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight," said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon's sword—"rise, and seat thyself.†  (source) Mark Twain, The Prince and The Pauper, 1881