How to Use accepted in a Sentence

accepted

adjective

• Cash is still the preferred payment method and sometimes the only accepted option.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, every prisoner and detainee has the right to [file a complaint] in the accepted channels and his claims will be examined.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
• For a full list of accepted items, see ww.flatcanrecycling.com/what-we-recycle.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Physicians learn to just do the routine, to do the accepted things -- don’t go too far out.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
• The other five accepted guilty pleas rather than bring their case to a jury.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The accepted rules of the day required a return run to qualify for a record.
  — Elana Scherr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The accepted thing to do was to make excuses for a wrong, to ignore it, to sit and wait for the police to act after the fact.
  — Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
• The accepted students were due to spend the whole weekend getting a taste of the college lifestyle.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• Nee wanted to make something that made kids feel seen and feel accepted.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 15 June 2022
• Bird and Sherwin agree that much of the evidence aligns with the accepted story.
  — Vulture, 25 July 2023
• The accepted source location is the Chinese city of Wuhan.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Sep. 2020
• While they can be worn to somber events like funerals, the more accepted etiquette would be to wear a hat as a sign of respect.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• People who might not have the best home life, or have problems, can just go there, meet others and feel accepted.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2020
• This is now an accepted way to raise puppies that can grow up to become more relaxed dogs.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2022
• You had been prepared for an ending and had so accepted death that life itself was the surprise.
  — Anne Lagamayo, Longreads, 11 May 2023
• Traughber said the accepted offer was all cash and well above asking.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• Because right now Sirk is a kind of accepted currency in the cinephile landscape.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
• Many more accepted thick envelopes of Russian rubles on top of their pay as an inducement to stay in their jobs.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Everyone is trusted, and people feel accepted and part of the team.
  — Joseph Folkman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• There is a more accepted level for men to be aggressive.
  — Julie Holunga, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• At the voting center, in-person voters will need to provide an accepted form of ID.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2020
• As of Sunday night, the home listed at $2.3 million, had an accepted offer.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• Neither team was flagged much in the game, with just one accepted penalty for both sides, though tensions were simmering at points.
  — Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• Most of the publications pay small per-word rates, around 8 to 10 cents, while others pay flat fees of up to a few hundred dollars for accepted pieces.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 25 Feb. 2023
• Fifty-eight percent of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market.
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• The offense has gone five straight games with exactly one accepted penalty against it.
  — Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2023
• There is no accepted way to diagnose or treat leaky gut syndrome.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2024
• The way the story goes is that in some counties, the distribution of Joe Biden’s vote totals across precincts fails an accepted test for catching fraud.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• That's within the accepted time frame for human eye blinking, which averages out to one-third of a second.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
• The husband stitch is not an accepted medical practice and rarely occurs in the United States.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 15 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024