Sample sentences for ACCUMULATE

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Definition

to collect or gradually increase

Greenhouse gas continues to accumulate in the atmosphere.

accumulate = gradually increase

DNA damage accumulates with age.

accumulates = gradually increases

You mustn't start life by accumulating debts.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
Not only are the scars from the arena gone, but those accumulated over years of hunting have vanished without a trace.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
She did not see the women approaching, accumulating slowly in groups of twos and threes from the left.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants!'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
At sunset she went outdoors, suffering a torment of accumulating suspense.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
But amid the pretentious splendor which Roger Lanyon had accumulated, Joyce was not tedious.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Only after a year did the accumulated malice (which until then had been vented, for the sake of training, on animals) find its true goal: people.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Already her suitcases bulged with items she'd accumulated; she was surprised how many of these there were.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
It was really, achingly, endlessly true, and it was always during roll calls that the accumulated misery threatened to overwhelm me.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
I gradually accumulated a larger and larger stack of coins.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
There were little white things falling out of the sky, and they seemed to be accumulating on the ground.
Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
You see it was Robinson Crusoe asking all the accumulated questions of fifty-six years!
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
He's accumulated plenty of experience and knows how to delay proceedings.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took out his spoon and ate the accumulated snow off his neighbor's back.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
Her punishment accumulated; she continued to bear it, however, with a good deal of superficial fortitude.
Henry James -- Washington Square
To think how languages could accumulate in a family, in a country like that.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
They pressed—they swarmed upon me in ever accumulating heaps.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

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