How to Use accelerate in a Sentence

accelerate

verb

• She stepped on the gas and the car accelerated.
• She stepped on the gas and accelerated the car.
• The plane accelerated down the runway.
• The rate of economic growth has continued to accelerate.
• He says that cutting taxes will help to accelerate economic growth.
• While energy prices have come down, prices for categories like food and services continue to accelerate.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Like a catapult, the stylus is rigged with springs and latches and can accelerate more than 40 times faster than a sprinting cheetah.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023
• So Trump may accelerate what Moscow and Beijing see as that self-weakening trend.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
• Talks host Azerbaijan has lobbied governments to accelerate their move to clean energy while touting gas as a transition fuel.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
• But when compared to last year’s unreliable defense that failed to close out numerous close games, much less help accelerate blowouts, what the unit is doing this year is a breath of fresh air in Boulder.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
• The two players exchanged ground stroke after ground stroke, the pace of the ball accelerating as the point went on.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Video of the incident shows one of the back tires appearing to break apart and start smoking as the plane accelerates on the runway.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 10 July 2024
• Were you guys trying to accelerate or do things faster?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• The central bank also opened the door to a pause, accelerating bets that the Fed will hold rates steady at its next meeting in June and cut rates as soon as July.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 14 May 2023
• Those losses have accelerated in the last few decades, both because of climate change and land use changes.
  — Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
• The Hornets’ brain trust must find a way to accelerate their path without jeopardizing the future in the process.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
• Once the ice shelf is gone, however, the glaciers behind it accelerate their flow into the ocean—and this does increase sea level.
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Land one of the those top spots in the May 8 lottery, and a rebuilding team could decide to accelerate its timeline through free agency.
  — Jay Cohen, ajc, 14 Apr. 2023
• Some proposals even seek to accelerate and put the brakes on AI development at the same time.
  — Alondra Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2024
• The journey to the EV future is only going to accelerate.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Apr. 2023
• But there are still hurdles, and the rate of transition must accelerate, according to many experts in the field.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
• Dashcam video shows the truck turn from the main road onto a residential street and accelerate.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• When snow lies on the ground for weeks or months, the grains of snow grow larger, absorbing more sunlight and accelerating melting.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• This whiskey-world arms race has accelerated in recent years, with brands taking big swings to make new bottles stand out.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 June 2024
• Or the cost of accelerating the destruction of our planet?
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• The economy, which grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual rate in the first three months of the year, is projected to accelerate to a 2% pace in the current April-June quarter.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• The robot learns to carry its speed into the apex, then brakes sharply to turn and accelerates out of the corner, to minimize the driving duration.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the United States, far-right hate groups have long traded in anti-Jewish tropes, and in recent years that trend has been accelerating.
  — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• But price increases accelerated over the early months of 2024, prompting the Fed to all but abandon those cuts.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Book bans are accelerating rapidly, with states like Texas and Florida bearing the brunt of the issue.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024