How to Use accept in a Sentence

accept

verb

• The store doesn't accept credit cards.
• They offered him the job, and he accepted it.
• They offered him the job, and he accepted.
• This treatment is now accepted by many doctors.
• They refused to accept his resignation.
• She's still trying to get her manuscript accepted for publication.
• They accepted some applications and rejected others.
• But the risk of a slow rebuild is that those kids become accustomed to losing and accept it as normal.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Another pitfall would be the use of ultimatums to force the sides to accept a deal.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
• Please note, only residential tires will be accepted, with a limit of 20 tires per household.
  — Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
• Cazenovia has been able to work out agreements with about a dozen other colleges in the area to accept its students who want to transfer, enabling them to finish their degrees.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• If an insurer drops a provider from its network, patients may have to find a new clinician that accepts their insurance or pay up to tens of thousands of dollars a year out of pocket for the therapy.
  — Annie Waldman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
• History will never accept you as a legitimate President.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 1 Dec. 2022
• But that would require other passengers to accept a little unruly—that is, childlike—behavior rather than see it as a failure of parenting or a violation of the social contract.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
• The story did the trick and got the seniors to accept the food.
  — al, 16 Sep. 2019
• The people in the program would have to accept the care.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2022
• The texts show Pence’s aide refused to accept the votes.
  — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• Most of us have a license from Africa, but the board here doesn’t accept it.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
• Twist said her friends at the time counseled her to accept it.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
• Anything too large to fit in the back of a sedan can’t be accepted.
  — Corey Dockser, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• If the funds are accepted, a light on the top of the validator will turn green.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The district can accept cash or checks, but not gift cards.
  — Ramona Sentinel, 11 July 2018
• For a white youth to accept the brutal hypocrisies of the way things are is a rite of passage.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Fill out the sign-up forms and accept all terms and conditions.
  — al, 22 Oct. 2022
• The system saw an image of a street sign—good enough, accept it and move on.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019
• Gordon is the second suspect in the case to accept a plea deal.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
• The Emmy-winning actor, 26, was not present at the award show to accept the award.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• There are people still there that don't agree and accept it, which is fine.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
• And some of those appeals were accepted, and some were not.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Sep. 2019
• But who’s willing to step up and accept those challenges and go out there and work on it?
  — al, 13 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025