Sample Sentences for
accommodate
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accommodate as in:  the room can accommodate four

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    This hotel can accommodate up to 350 guests.
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    The idea was that certain family units could accommodate an additional child.  (source)
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    They bulge outward because his eye cavities are too shallow to accommodate them.  (source)
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    The room is just big enough to accommodate his size, and no bigger.  (source)
    accommodate = fit (provide for)
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    I entered — not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation.  (source)
    accommodation = provision
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    The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome.  (source)
    accommodated = provided for
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    But then everything eventually shifts, accommodates.†  (source)
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    He was perfectly aware that deception, if detected, might prove dangerous; and, for one of his pursuits and character, he was strongly troubled with an unaccommodating regard for the truth.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccommodating means not and reverses the meaning of accommodating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Mrs. Archbold stepped accommodatingly into the breach.†  (source)
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    A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return, Isabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter, and arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.  (source)
    accommodations = provisions
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    Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccommodated means not and reverses the meaning of accommodated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He sat back and loosened his belt to accommodate the bulge in his waistband from the .38-caliber revolver he'd brought along for protection.  (source)
    accommodate = provide for
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    For Novastoshnah Beach has the finest accommodation for seals of any place in all the world.  (source)
    accommodation = provision (to provide for)
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accommodate as in:  moved to accommodate her

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    They had to accommodate various interests to get a majority.
    accommodate = adjust to (fit a need)
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    The sheets rose up, trying hard to accommodate the occupant.  (source)
    accommodate = adjust to fit
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    He had to stoop a little to accommodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do.  (source)
    accommodate = adjust for
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    It's made him very accommodating, since he's not blind to Mother's faults.  (source)
    accommodating = helpful
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    One size can fit all because the skirt flares out and the top is ribbed elastic that can stretch to accommodate most anyone.  (source)
    accommodate = adjust to fit
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    He condemned openly Mr. Brown's policy of compromise and accommodation.  (source)
    accommodation = arrangement to satisfy competing interests
    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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    He was fit, that was all, and unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life.  (source)
    accommodated = adjusted to fit
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    "I was layin' off to go over to the Deep Spring neighbourhood when I could git a lift in that direction—the folks over yon is mighty accommodative," she concluded, "but I was took sooner than I expected, and hyer we air without a stitch, I've done sont Bud an' Honey to Mandy Ann Foncher's mebby they'll bring in somethin'."  (source)
    accommodative = helpful
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    ...and over that time they'd come to a new set of accommodations for how to be together.  (source)
    accommodations = adjustments
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    They fought in the breakers, they fought in the sand, and they fought on the smooth-worn basalt rocks of the nurseries, for they were just as stupid and unaccommodating as men.  (source)
    unaccommodating = uncooperative
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccommodating means not and reverses the meaning of accommodating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Kropp is contented now and more accommodating: "How many of us were there in the class exactly?"  (source)
    accommodating = helpful
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    Her eyes squinted to accommodate her smile.  (source)
    accommodate = adjust for
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    Troy is fifty-three years old, a large man with thick, heavy hands; it is this largeness that he strives to fill out and make an accommodation with.  (source)
    accommodation = arrangement
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accommodations as in:  hotel accommodations

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Overnight accommodations are available.
accommodations = lodgings
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    We hope you will find the accommodations adequate.
    accommodations = space or lodgings
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    Give those folks nice clean accommodations.  (source)
    accommodations = space to stay
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    A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other Dispossessed Persons  (source)
    Accommodation = lodging
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    Campus accommodations befitted students of my stature.  (source)
    accommodations = space or lodging
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    "The bunkers," the girl began in the bored voice of a museum guide, "are for the accommodation of those who fail to cooperate with camp rules."  (source)
    accommodation = lodging
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    First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park-ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security.  (source)
    accommodations = space to stay
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    I will get you a ticket to London and reserve your sleeping-car accommodation in the Stamboul-Calais coach.  (source)
    accommodation = space
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    Since they were visitors, they would have to share living space with those who lived there, and would be given the best accommodations.  (source)
    accommodations = space and provisions or lodging
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    The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.  (source)
    accommodation = space
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    Due to the unfortunate damage to the coffee shop SHIN HOO'S RESTAURANT is prepared to satisfy all dinner accommodations.  (source)
    accommodations = services needed
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    Private accommodation is getting scarcer.  (source)
    accommodation = lodging
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    He reported as instructed to the relevant government department and was told to find accommodations nearby and to report back weekly until his role was decided.  (source)
    accommodations = lodging (a place to stay)
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    But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation the Boar could have given me, and the quality of my dreams was about the same as in the best bedroom.  (source)
    accommodation = lodging
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