How to Use accelerate in a Sentence

accelerate

verb

• She stepped on the gas and accelerated the car.
• She stepped on the gas and the car accelerated.
• The plane accelerated down the runway.
• The rate of economic growth has continued to accelerate.
• He says that cutting taxes will help to accelerate economic growth.
• The two players exchanged ground stroke after ground stroke, the pace of the ball accelerating as the point went on.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Were you guys trying to accelerate or do things faster?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• The central bank also opened the door to a pause, accelerating bets that the Fed will hold rates steady at its next meeting in June and cut rates as soon as July.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 14 May 2023
• Once the ice shelf is gone, however, the glaciers behind it accelerate their flow into the ocean—and this does increase sea level.
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Some proposals even seek to accelerate and put the brakes on AI development at the same time.
  — Alondra Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2024
• Dashcam video shows the truck turn from the main road onto a residential street and accelerate.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• When snow lies on the ground for weeks or months, the grains of snow grow larger, absorbing more sunlight and accelerating melting.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The economy, which grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual rate in the first three months of the year, is projected to accelerate to a 2% pace in the current April-June quarter.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• In the United States, far-right hate groups have long traded in anti-Jewish tropes, and in recent years that trend has been accelerating.
  — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• As soon as the electrons exit the atom, the laser’s electric field captures them, accelerates them to high energies and slams them back into their parent atoms.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Scannell said the cuts are also part of an effort to accelerate growth in digital media.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• But by her late twenties, though, the sequence has accelerated.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• Most of its songs begin with more force and momentum than just about any Western rockers can muster and only accelerate from there.
  — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2024
• The actors, who enter at fever pitch (and somewhat blurry diction), accelerate to levels that are a thrill to behold.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• That lack of urgency hasn’t changed, even as climate change accelerates.
  — Emma Foehringer Merchant, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• Home-price growth in the US accelerated in December, capping a period with a steep drop in mortgage rates.
  — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2024
• The scientists did not estimate the exact amount of sea-level rise that accelerated melting of the West Antarctic ice shelves might cause.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• And banks and other lenders have been clamping down on credit for months, a process that accelerated after the spring banking crisis sent shock waves through the industry.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• This was the year that the accelerating global drop in extreme poverty – which has plunged by more than two-thirds since 2000 – resumed after its pandemic pause.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Falcon 9 then fires its upper stage engine to accelerate and climb into orbit.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
• This trend is accelerating because businesses recognize that lines — and how much people will pay to avoid them — are a way to make money.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• The latter has seen Disney funnel its marquee efforts away from linear TV and that shift has helped accelerate cord-cutting.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Instead of adding more throttle to accelerate, the pedal's position equates to a specific speed.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• And if the planet keeps getting hotter, the loss of snowpack is likely to continue accelerating.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• Listening to it felt like walking the length of a subway car that’s accelerating in the opposite direction.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024