How to Use accelerator in a Sentence

accelerator

noun
  • The Bulldogs cut it to five, and the Aztecs stepped on the accelerator for an 11-0 run.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The Menu has been around for a few years, but there seemed to come a point where the project just hit the accelerator.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2022
  • To prove it, a test driver swings in the top lane and hits the accelerator to 105 mph and takes his hands off the wheel.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That's when Mage hit the accelerator, surged from the middle of the track to overtake Two Phil's and win by a length.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 7 May 2023
  • Kucherov hit the accelerator first, with 11 points in his next three contests to grab the NHL lead on Nov. 7.
    Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The heat acts like an accelerator to enable the gel to break down faster.
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Her foot sank hard into the brake, ready to pounce on the accelerator.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • First off, none of the three pedals acts as the accelerator.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
  • If the car brakes for no reason, your way to correct that is to hit the accelerator.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • As the game enters its final stretch, the fast team must be primed to step on the accelerator.
    Fred Barnes, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Then give yourself a pat on the back for your insight and ease up on the accelerator.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The Twins have signed on for three years for the accelerator program.
    Nick Williams, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Nvidia makes a chip called the H100 accelerator that is able to process that data and is in high demand.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • If values are the accelerator for driving toward your goals, then ethics are more like the brakes, the steering, or the lines on the road.
    Charlotte Burgess Auburn, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The right handlebar has the accelerator, while the left handlebar holds the brake and bell.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Having the Games at home has been an accelerator for clubs to open their doors to parasports.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 23 July 2024
  • If your car stalls or runs out of gas on the road, put your hazard lights on right away and release the accelerator, Carias says.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
  • When a driver hits the brake pedal, the truck will stop even if the accelerator is depressed.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Hit the accelerator, for example, and a revving sound pulsates to the beat.
    Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The kit comes with an LED accelerator light and two syringes of gel that can be used for about 20 treatments.
    Rebecca Deczynski, Health.com, 21 June 2021
  • Most of them just passed through the detector to the depth of the tunnel and into the hillside housing the accelerator lab.
    Ling Xin, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2020
  • An attempt to pin the accelerator up the hill led to hitting the curbing hard enough to send the Corolla onto two wheels.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Illini soon found the accelerator, shooting 58.1% for the game.
    Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • If the drive wheels start to spin or slide going up a hill, ease off on the accelerator and gently resume speed.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • So the issue has to be forced with things like the coach and front office accelerator program.
    Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2022
  • The money will be invested in biotechs that go through the accelerator and go on to raise a Series A round, though Curie.
    Elaine Chen, STAT, 26 June 2024
  • The instructors tell you when to hit the accelerator, when to tap the brakes, where to steer out wide, where to hug the curves and where to punch it and finally build up some speed.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2021
  • That gives the Fishers Test Kitchen time to find a restaurant concept for the accelerator space.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2020
  • In effect, officials steered a car off the road, threw a cinder block on the accelerator, then jumped out of the vehicle with passengers still in the back.
    David Zweig, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • After applying these items, turn the compost well to incorporate your accelerator of choice.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025

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