Example sentences for: acceptance

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

  • More surprising than evident but relatively insignificant differences between the language in Pepys's Diary and our everyday language are the words and expressions that have persisted in English for more than three centuries without having ever gained full acceptance.

  • In an op-ed article Wednesday, the Financial Times of London said Khatami's objectives in Italy were threefold--to win Western endorsement for his reforming efforts, to foster international acceptance of Iran as a regional power with legitimate security interests, and to entice urgently needed foreign investment.

  • The changes were attributed to: 1) increased cohabitation; 2) later marriages; 3) greater acceptance of divorce; and 4) aging baby boomers with "empty nests."

  • But this explanation, first advanced and documented by the Australian National Dictionary , has yet to win full acceptance, there still being those who prefer the unsubstantiated acronym POME Prisoner Of Mother England or the French pomme de terre as a source.

  • Purely literary metaphors have been excluded, except for those which have become traditional by general acceptance, as have many Shakespearean sayings as well as titles and phrases from modern authors.


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