How to Use accretion in a Sentence

accretion

noun

• There was an accretion of ice on the car's windshield.
• Told in a circular fashion, from varying points of view, the story’s accretion of tiny details implies that something sinister has happened without ever revealing the girl’s fate.
  — Jess Row, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Along with the accretion of hardware and new tools came the less desirable.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2020
• The accretion of ills surely skirts the edge of overwhelming.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Closer to a host star, gas giants are thought to form by the accretion of a large rocky core which then starts drawing in gas.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• Shell plates grow from the center outward by accretion, and eyes are added throughout the chiton’s life as the edge grows.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• The ornate and the sober, the lovingly reclaimed and the state-of-the-art, the one-offs and the series—all meet and mingle here in a happy accretion of faultless good taste.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, ELLE Decor, 18 Oct. 2018
• As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• The pixels accumulate above, then rush to the ground in a thick accretion that spreads out on the stage floor, then flows up to cover the entire scrim.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The next goal is to obtain a sequence of images or a video, showing the time variability of the accretion flow around the black hole.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2020
• Any future earnings accretion would come on top of that.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• This is the first time that astronomers have seen an accretion disc in an extragalactic area.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• Travel conditions will be hazardous due to a tenth of an inch of ice accretion.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• France, like every culture, has a soul, the accretion of art, history, the people, and their struggles.
  — Rick Steves, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2022
• The global status quo is the accretion of every policy action—zillions of them—in the nearly 75 years since the end of World War II.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 9 May 2018
• The difference in speed is the evidence the astronomers needed to determine that an accretion disc is present around the star.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• As the matter gathers, a spinning disc called an accretion disc is forming.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes, this results in the accretion of an especially large amount of star stuff.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
• Suddenly, the boys and girls were running at a new level, swept up by an accretion of delicious detail, and a zest for more.
  — Marc Bloom, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2019
• Yet the accretion of little gestures—hands thrust in and out of pockets, gazes redirected—is one of Rooney’s sharpest distinctions as a stylist.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• As a result, the conditions would take too long for core accretion, if possible at all.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• The contribution of these non-coral species to reef growth, called secondary accretion, helps shape the surface and guide the settlement of larval corals.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2016
• Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe and are thought to be powered by the accretion of matter onto a supermassive black hole.
  — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• As with so much in Ostlund’s work, none of them come as major Hollywood-style epiphanies; a slow accretion of events chip away at a character.
  — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• These rates are flat values applied across the landscape and can be used to highlight how accretion can offset sea level rise.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• While much of the area escaped significant issues from ice, there are at least patchy zones of some heftier accretion.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2018
• Katie Holmes has spent the past couple of weeks tramping through Manhattan in an accretion of unusual shoes.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
• The film, too, is a slow, gradual accretion of detail that builds to a spectacular vista across the ridges and troughs, the spires and valleys of a lifelong, life-defining friendship.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 May 2022
• The newfound drifter instead provides strong support for the core accretion model.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2020
• Astronomers believe this happens through a process called core accretion.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024