How to Use accountable in a Sentence

accountable

adjective

• If anything goes wrong I will hold you personally accountable!
• This was a huge time-saver and kept me accountable to myself to stay on track.
  — Women's Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• One good way to keep yourself accountable is to join or start a book club.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 22 Dec. 2022
• People need to be held accountable for this type of bulls---.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• That means only the Pell City board can hold Propst accountable.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• There were three basic rules: Be on time, play hard and be accountable.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• For months, Pence has said that Trump will be held accountable in the eyes of history for his role on Jan. 6.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• Now the team and the Anti-Defamation League want Amazon to be held accountable as well.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• In light of these rules, do HOAs hold people accountable to maintain their yards and homes?
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Davis says that the industry as a whole needs to be more accountable in calling out their peers.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• Talking about being more accountable is, in the end, very easy.
  — Vince Molinaro, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• People need to be held accountable to restore faith in the system.
  — Aaron Klein, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Many in South Korea are now calling for Yoon to be held accountable.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 6 Dec. 2024
• There is -- everybody has to be held accountable to the same system.
  — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
• And for head coaches that do survive, someone on the staff will be held accountable.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
• But now he is being held accountable for one of his misdeeds.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Houle asked the jury to hold Saipov accountable by sentencing him to death.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• To be bound to no one and accountable only to oneself is fertile ground in which to plant myths of one’s own making.
  — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
• Gutierrez-Reed is the second person to be held accountable for Hutchins’ death.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• As to Biden, 85% of Republicans think he's being held accountable, while 23% of Democrats say the same.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• So, to your point, our obligation is to hold all of these tech platforms accountable.
  — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
• So, the state, counties and cities know exactly what they’re supposed to do and are held accountable.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• The school board is accountable for the district’s $18.4-billion budget.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• When announcing the project, Abrams wrote about how Good Riddance forced her to be accountable.
  — Waiss David Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
• My son is gone and those who contributed to his senseless death should be held accountable.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• Its most powerful leaders — the Board of Trustees — were not held accountable.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Others had been involved, too, the F.B.I. found, but no one was ever held accountable.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Read more below about the 21 Indianapolis kids shot and the few adults held accountable.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2024
• González has vowed to appoint an energy czar to address the crisis and hold Luma Energy accountable.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
• Our officers will respond and people will be held accountable.
  — Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025