How to Use accrue in a Sentence

accrue

verb

• I'll get back all the money I invested, plus any interest and dividends that have accrued.
• Of the Twins’ 44 swings, the club accrued 19 swings and misses.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The YouTube video of the full event has accrued more than 3.3 million views.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Palace have accrued 27 points from the past 17 games to thrust the team well clear of trouble.
  — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• Reach out to your city and find out what needs to be done to stop the fines from accruing.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Over the years since, more and more rubber bands have accrued on the island.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
• That four plus the two runs meant England accrued six runs.
  — James Masters, CNN, 15 July 2019
• Mixed-media work by four artists hang from the ceiling or accrue on the walls.
  — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
• The Bruins have accrued more than $200 million in losses in the last six years, amid a move to the Big Ten.
  — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 20 May 2025
• The Lions accrued 65 of their 81 rushing yards in the first half and only ran the ball five times in the second half.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2019
• The group has now accrued at least half a dozen wins inside that space on all of those tallies.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• As a result, the Dodgers have now accrued $1.039 billion of deferred salary over the last five years.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
• The fines can accrue up to $1,000, and Perdue and Larson have both hit that limit.
  — Amy Lavalley, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• The benefits of those are accruing to a very small few.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
• The city sent the case to a special magistrate two years ago, and fines began to accrue.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
• The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Interest will accrue on all your loans and be added to your balance at the end.
  — cleveland, 9 Aug. 2020
• The net benefit of a low borrowing cost will accrue in the long term.
  — Misheck Mutize, Quartz Africa, 30 July 2020
• Even as the story accrues the heft of personal tragedy, each scene seems to float or bob.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• As with the Khan’s ancient cash, the biggest benefits are likely to accrue to the state.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• The impact of Brexit, in this telling, would accrue over time—so long as the government stuck to its guns.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• Some videos have accrued hundreds of thousands of views.
  — Nicole Nixon and, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2025
• The risks apply to nearly all of us, while the rewards will accrue to Musk and his shareholders.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• What’s more, the biggest charge was accrued when Mandy brought her ex-boyfriend to the emergency room for a broken wrist.
  — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
• So if debt continues to accrue, that won’t be an option again for a while.
  — Blake Farmer, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2022
• Low on funds, the pair stopped a while in the Sunshine State in order to accrue funds and got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• Moreover, the biggest wage gains in a tight labour market tend to accrue to the poorest workers.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• But the biggest benefits will accrue to those who move first.
  — Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• Blackpink, another K-pop outfit, claims the second-most leaders, with nine — less than one-seventh as many as BTS has accrued over the years.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
• The former single arrived in the final days of 2024 before ultimately accruing its following this spring, while the latter came out as the buzz started to take hold.
  — Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 25 June 2025