How to Use accept in a Sentence

accept

verb

• The store doesn't accept credit cards.
• They offered him the job, and he accepted it.
• They offered him the job, and he accepted.
• This treatment is now accepted by many doctors.
• They refused to accept his resignation.
• She's still trying to get her manuscript accepted for publication.
• They accepted some applications and rejected others.
• The Emmy-winning actor, 26, was not present at the award show to accept the award.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• In the past, a seller paid the agent who represented a buyer, which seemed to make buyers accept any agent with a pulse.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
• Does a person accept, say, poltergeists, but not extrasensory perception?
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
• As a result, there’s the potential for a case to absolutely break the public’s willingness to accept court decisions, and the union in the process.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
• Aside from the two camps’ differing offers, there is another major stumbling block: whether British and Greek lawmakers would accept a deal.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The riot in Brasilia was a reminder of the threat to democracy posed by far-right elements that refuse to accept Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat.
  — David Biller and Felipe Mello, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• While the new code addresses only new construction, it is seen as a major foray into the contentious question of whether residents will accept a shift away from fossil fuels.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Jackson was in town to accept an award at a private music industry confab at the San Diego Convention Center.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• Rent relief available The City of Milpitas has reopened its rent relief program and is accepting new applications.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
• The story did the trick and got the seniors to accept the food.
  — al, 16 Sep. 2019
• The people in the program would have to accept the care.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2022
• The texts show Pence’s aide refused to accept the votes.
  — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• Most of us have a license from Africa, but the board here doesn’t accept it.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
• Twist said her friends at the time counseled her to accept it.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
• Anything too large to fit in the back of a sedan can’t be accepted.
  — Corey Dockser, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• If the funds are accepted, a light on the top of the validator will turn green.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The district can accept cash or checks, but not gift cards.
  — Ramona Sentinel, 11 July 2018
• For a white youth to accept the brutal hypocrisies of the way things are is a rite of passage.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Fill out the sign-up forms and accept all terms and conditions.
  — al, 22 Oct. 2022
• The system saw an image of a street sign—good enough, accept it and move on.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019
• Gordon is the second suspect in the case to accept a plea deal.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
• There are people still there that don't agree and accept it, which is fine.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
• And some of those appeals were accepted, and some were not.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024