Example sentences for: accorded

How can you use “accorded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Congress should also note that, as GAO has indicated in the past, agencies are already accorded in law significant flexibilities, especially with respect to human capital issues, but for a variety of reasons they do not always take advantage of them.

  • Listen to her roulades--virtuosic runs of notes on a single syllable--and you'll hear each note as a distinct link in a long, twirling chain and each word being accorded its proper weight.

  • While science might appear removed from such politics, many scientists would probably agree that science is in fact a social enterprise, sharing many characteristics with other human pursuits, and that any claim to greater scientific truth can only be accorded over decades, even centuries.

  • As a result, we now have hybrid words like gymkhana and memsahib . Gymkhana , a `club for members to socialize and partake in sports and recreation,' is a mixture of the Hindi gendkhana (meaning `ball house') and the English gymnasium . Memsahib , meaning `European or white lady,' stems from sahib , an Indian title of respect often accorded to white men, and mem , a corruption of Madam .

  • She has also received the star treatment usually accorded pioneers of diversity.


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