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.
• The Raiders are in a great position to accelerate the process.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Think of it like throwing a rock in a pond and watching the ripples accelerate out around it.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Jan. 2023
• Decelerate and pivot in front of the cone and accelerate again to the next cone.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• 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 war in Ukraine is likely to accelerate its adoption.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• As prices accelerate, the Fed feels pressure to step up its rate hikes, putting the economy at further risk.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• 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
• That means that any sudden car movements – stopping, accelerating, or turning – could cause the tires to skid on top of the snow.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
• Starbucks has to catch up with its customers to accelerate growth.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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
• So some people think the variants will just accelerate things.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• 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
• But soon the college’s spending spree would accelerate further and at no more of a dangerous time.
  — al, 25 Jan. 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
• Its development as as rival to X accelerated after Musk bought the app in 2022.
  — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
• If Ukraine and the U.S. reach an understanding acceptable to Trump, that could accelerate his administration’s push to peace talks.
  — Matthew Lee and Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025