Sample Sentences foracquiesce (editor-reviewed)
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She is opposed, but she will ultimately acquiesce to the will of the majority.acquiesce = reluctantly accept
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You can make them acquiesce, but don't expect them to be happy about it.
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I could not but acquiesce, for I was dog tired, and could not have sat up had I tried. (source)acquiesce = reluctantly comply
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It must have been after midnight, and I was puzzled by his amiable acquiescence. (source)acquiescence = compliance (allowing what was asked)
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His acquiescence calmed her. (source)acquiescence = compliance (doing what she wished)
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We were told at first that the hospital wouldn't be able to determine the cause of death until Monday, when they would perform the autopsy. But my father's radio station wanted to issue a news release about his death... The morgue acquiesced, and by Saturday afternoon we found out that he had died from... (source)acquiesced = reluctantly complied
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I'd be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simple-minded patriotism ... how they were sending me off to fight a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand. (source)acquiescence = compliance
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I had wished her out of my life, and she had acquiesced, floating out of her body to escape my terrible hatred. (source)acquiesced = reluctantly complied
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each time he was forced to acquiesce to Danny's rendition of a passage (source)acquiesce = reluctantly accept
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From backstage I was uniquely positioned to search the audience for the acquiescent presence of Mr. and Mrs. Meany; they were not there.† (source)
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She had a sense of acquiescing in this plan with the passiveness of a sufferer resigned to the surgeon's touch; (source)acquiescing = reluctantly complying
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In full awareness of the life anguish of the creatures of his hand, in full consciousness of the roaring wilderness of pains, the brain-splitting fires of the deluded, self-ravaging, lustful, angry universe of his creation, this divinity acquiesces in the deed of supplying life to life.† (source)
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Mr. Letterblair looked at him from under enquiring eyebrows, and the young man, aware of the uselessness of trying to explain what was in his mind, bowed acquiescently while his senior continued: "Divorce is always unpleasant."† (source)
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no one has ever suffered such torments ... and yet even to these, habit brought ... a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair; (source)acquiescence = reluctant acceptance
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Xavier acquiesced. (source)acquiesced = reluctantly complied
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Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. (source)acquiesce = reluctantly accept (it as fair)
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