How to Use acquiescence in a Sentence

acquiescence

noun

• Gaze low, the boy muttered an acquiescence to give the test a try.
  — Lara N. Dotson-Renta, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• On the acquiescence of this government in the murder of the Jews.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2021
• Each inch of reins wrapped around his hands and each ounce of pressure cutting into his palms seemed to lessen the acquiescence of the beasts in his charge.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
• Your daughter-in-law's antipathy to you has withstood the test of time, as has your child's acquiescence to it.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Stage two was Vichy-regime acquiescence to him during the campaign.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2017
• In the two months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the silence — and even acquiescence — of the Russian elite has started to fray.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• That leaves is with the third and most likely scenario -- acquiescence to Iran getting to the threshold of a nuclear weapon.
  — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2022
• The populists want either to reopen talks on the ESM or to gain something in return for acquiescence.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• Saudi acquiescence to the agreements has been considered key to the deals.
  — Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
• He had been appointed, with Nixon’s grudging acquiescence, to do what he was then fired for.
  — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 10 May 2017
• That marked another historic first for Israel and at least an acquiescence by the kingdom for the UAE's move.
  — Fox News, 31 Aug. 2020
• The death of a child in D.C., caught in the crossfire of thugs, ought in particular to shake Congress out of its acquiescence and seeming lack of concern about crime.
  — George J. Terwilliger Iii, National Review, 1 Aug. 2021
• An acquiescence by the Taliban to an extension will only take things back to square one.
  — Adam Weinstein, Time, 23 Mar. 2021
• In some places, acquiescence or refusal are easy ways to make a public statement.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2021
• Saša and Filip play out the last gasp of their relationship with the acquiescence signature of a love gone sepia.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• The whores, however, show no such sign of acquiescence.
  — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2017
• To some veteran scientists, this acquiescence was the real sign that the CDC had lost its way.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
• What was striking was the acquiescence of most pro-Brexit Tory MPs.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• More like uninformed acquiescence, when the forms run to a median of 27 pages.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
• His border wall, which was to be built with the Mexican's government's money and acquiescence, seems stuck in the mud.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 31 May 2017
• And her deceptions, and the media’s acquiescence in them.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
• But there is a muted acquiescence in her tone—a realization that all that’s left is to keep going.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
• Even some of her admirers were shocked by her acquiescence.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 26 Mar. 2021
• The French have been proposing a $15 billion line of credit for Tehran, but want Washington's acquiescence.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• That marked another historic first for Israel and signaled acquiescence by the kingdom for the UAE's move.
  — Aron Heller, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2020
• In many countries immigration rose with the approval, or at least the acquiescence, of liberal left and broad right alike.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Thanks to the Senate’s filibuster rule and his hold over his conference, few bills have become law without at least the acquiescence of McConnell in the past dozen years or so.
  — Steven T. Dennis, Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, though, the kingdom had already quietly signaled its acquiescence or even tacit approval of the Israeli claim to Jerusalem.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
• For Yerevan, Azerbaijan’s seizure of the territory last fall, with Russian acquiescence, became the last straw.
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• If Russia experiences an economic decline or a demand for more social spending, this acquiescence to the war could diminish, eroding Putin’s base.
  — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024