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

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