Sample Sentences for
accumulate
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    The alkaloid is simply going to accumulate in the system.†  (source)
  • •
    Mrs. Shannon rolls all of us closer so we can watch the snow accumulate on the grass and trees.†  (source)
  • •
    Less than two days to accumulate more money than I have stolen in my entire life.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • •
    Did it suck out all the poisons accumulated with the years?†  (source)
  • •
    They must accumulate millions of tiny facts.†  (source)
  • •
    A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets.†  (source)
  • •
    Though I'll have to clean it thoroughly every few hours as dust accumulates.†  (source)
  • •
    Success is the result of what sociologists like to call "accumulative advantage."†  (source)
    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.
  • •
    I scramble to my feet and brush myself off, though I haven't accumulated any dirt that I'm aware of.†  (source)
  • •
    Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone.†  (source)
  • •
    I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not.†  (source)
  • •
    The coffee table has a couple of drawers underneath it filled with the kind of domestic junk that accumulates over time: rolls of Sellotape, plug adaptors for foreign travel, tape measures, sewing kits, old mobile-phone chargers.†  (source)
  • •
    'Perhaps, under such circumstances, madam and gentlemen,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you will do me the favour to submit yourselves, for the moment, to the direction of one who, however unworthy to be regarded in any other light but as a Waif and Stray upon the shore of human nature, is still your fellow-man, though crushed out of his original form by individual errors, and the accumulative force of a combination of circumstances?'†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)