How to Use accountable in a Sentence

accountable

adjective

• If anything goes wrong I will hold you personally accountable!
• Pittman wants people to be held accountable and changes to be made in the SBC.
  — Shelia Poole, ajc, 25 May 2022
• That's what harms us, is that the people that need to be held accountable aren't.
  — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 3 Sep. 2025
• This was a huge time-saver and kept me accountable to myself to stay on track.
  — Women's Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Thanks for hearing me out, and a big thank you to all who held me accountable.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2022
• John Moore’s life John was the youngest of four boys but was the brother that held the others accountable.
  — Damenica Ellis, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2025
• One good way to keep yourself accountable is to join or start a book club.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 22 Dec. 2022
• No one should be held accountable for something that Putin does clear across the world.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
• Their goal was to try to hold people accountable for these things.
  — Adia Robinson, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2022
• People need to be held accountable for this type of bulls---.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• That means only the Pell City board can hold Propst accountable.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• There were three basic rules: Be on time, play hard and be accountable.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• For months, Pence has said that Trump will be held accountable in the eyes of history for his role on Jan. 6.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• The coaches are accountable for being on their p’s and q’s, too.
  — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
• To this day, nobody has been held accountable for his death – or for the deaths of those killed in the ensuing protests.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Now the team and the Anti-Defamation League want Amazon to be held accountable as well.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• In light of these rules, do HOAs hold people accountable to maintain their yards and homes?
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The injustice is that the largest emitters are not held accountable for our plight.
  — Time, 6 Jan. 2022
• Davis says that the industry as a whole needs to be more accountable in calling out their peers.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• Talking about being more accountable is, in the end, very easy.
  — Vince Molinaro, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• That means if there’s a security flaw in the project, no one can be held accountable for that flaw.
  — Nate Nead, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Everything on the football sides feels measured and accountable, notable by the calm and steady hand of adults in the room.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2025
• Richard is finally held accountable for his actions and is fired at the end of the finale.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
• People need to be held accountable to restore faith in the system.
  — Aaron Klein, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Lester said her detectives would get to the bottom of the attack and hold those who opened fire accountable.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Many in South Korea are now calling for Yoon to be held accountable.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 6 Dec. 2024
• Lewis said after the trial that Jones had been held accountable.
  — Jake Bleiberg, Dave Collins, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• There is -- everybody has to be held accountable to the same system.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
• Holding the youths accountable and avoiding jail is not the program's only goal.
  — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Should companies like TransUnion be held legally accountable when millions of people are exposed to fraud?
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025