How to Use accept in a Sentence

accept

verb
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  • 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.
  • 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
  • The way forward is to accept change, in a positive way.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The team that trades for him will need to realize, and accept, that wrinkle.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Drop your end of the rope, graciously accept what is pocket change to him and move on.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The Benavidez camp has had Plant on its radar for months, but wasn't sure if Plant would accept the challenge.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And the athlete can either choose to accept or decline that.
    — Erica L. Ayala, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • But that better has to start with a hard truth that many don’t want to accept: Fire will again hit these same places, maybe in our lifetime.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In both, residents are learning how to make and accept payments in bitcoin as well as to use bitcoin as a savings technology.
    — Frank Corva, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025

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