How to Use accrue in a Sentence

accrue

verb

• I'll get back all the money I invested, plus any interest and dividends that have accrued.
• Of the Twins’ 44 swings, the club accrued 19 swings and misses.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The YouTube video of the full event has accrued more than 3.3 million views.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The fines can accrue up to $1,000, and Perdue and Larson have both hit that limit.
  — Amy Lavalley, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• The city sent the case to a special magistrate two years ago, and fines began to accrue.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
• The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Even as the story accrues the heft of personal tragedy, each scene seems to float or bob.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The impact of Brexit, in this telling, would accrue over time—so long as the government stuck to its guns.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• The risks apply to nearly all of us, while the rewards will accrue to Musk and his shareholders.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• What’s more, the biggest charge was accrued when Mandy brought her ex-boyfriend to the emergency room for a broken wrist.
  — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
• So if debt continues to accrue, that won’t be an option again for a while.
  — Blake Farmer, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2022
• Low on funds, the pair stopped a while in the Sunshine State in order to accrue funds and got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• The 2013 law caps that amount at the number of hours an employee accrues in one year and is permitted to cash out.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• But many of the benefits accrued to the upper and middle classes.
  — Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
• FedExCup points are accrued over the year, with the top 70 players qualifying for the Playoffs at the end of the season.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 19 June 2024
• Workers lose wages from days out sick, and trips to the hospital can accrue massive bills.
  — Sherrod Brown, STAT, 29 Mar. 2021
• That opened the door for interest to start accruing Sept. 1 and for payments to come due starting Oct. 1.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Most workers accrue overtime to finish their heavy workloads, but many are too afraid to ask to be paid for it.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• The Mercantile Library has been around since the 1800s and has accrued quite a collection.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2024
• Kivett broke down the logistics of the caloric burn that a ride on the under-desk elliptical should accrue.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• On top of that trio of leaders, Jin has managed to accrue two more top 10 hits on the ranking, and both came very close to adding to his list of No. 1 smashes.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• The wars' financial costs will continue to accrue for years even now that the last U.S. soldier has left Afghanistan.
  — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• But provisions in the Build Back Better bill would limit some of the ways to accrue them in the future -- at least for high-income savers.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• Again, that’s how symbols accrue their power — by leaving out some of the meaning.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
• Under the bill, employees will accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024
• As with the Instagram egg, the best way to accrue more content capital is to already have it.
  — The New Yorker, 4 June 2022
• The drop could also reflect some investors locking in profits that have accrued while the shares have climbed by more than 50% so far this year.
  — Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Teams will accrue points in the skills competition leading up to the flag football games on Sunday.
  — cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
• The track has accrued more than 7.7 million Spotify streams and become a fan favorite at his shows.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• While the price increases can be exciting, that volatility can go both ways and losses can accrue just as quickly.
  — Steven Dudash, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024