Example sentences for: acceded

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

  • Backed by Pakistan, Pathan tribesmen invaded Kashmir in 1947 to force the issue, but were soon repulsed by Indian troops flown in when the maharaja hastily acceded to India.

  • They then acceded to a "cooling off" period, which ended Jan.

  • King Mahendra acceded to the throne on the death of his father Tribhuvan in 1955.

  • To this mix, Culturebox would like to add a candidate of its own: Chip McGrath, the editor of the New York Times Book Review . A former staff member at The New Yorker , McGrath was passed over when Robert Gottlieb acceded to power, but over the past few years he has done a bang-up job at the Book Review , giving it all of the heft of the New York Review of Books with none of the intellectual snobbery.

  • The White House, to be sure, read the political signals coming from Capitol Hill, but the Congress largely acceded to the executive branch's funding requests.


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