Example sentences for: acknowledge

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

  • Even officials who acknowledge a vital threat intellectually may not be ready to act on such beliefs at great cost or at high risk.

  • Only at the end of the piece does he acknowledge the pop star's vast wealth, but still gives him a bye.

  • While protestors do seek democracy, they are wildly nationalistic and refuse to acknowledge Serbia's responsibility for Bosnia's destruction.

  • Not Keith Richards; not John Lennon; not Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who didn't even acknowledge his daughter Liv Tyler until she was in her teens.

  • Not everyone can always be sure of everything, but it has always seemed to me that one of the functions of education is to implant doubt in a student's mind: in other words, it is not so important that he remember, a dozen years after leaving school, what a dangling modifier, split infinitive, agreement between the number of a subject and its verb, etc., might mean, but the process of education should have created a (minor) circuit in the brain of the pupil so that when a certain situation is encountered later on, he acknowledge a nagging suspicion that there might be something wrong and that it would be best were he to look it up in an authoritative source to see what is written there by people who know such things.


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