Example sentences for: acclaim

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

  • Veteran Belgian documentarians Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne win acclaim for their film about a 15-year-old boy's pledge to a dying Ghanaian immigrant to look after his family.

  • All opened to acclaim at the National Theatre and provoked national debate in Britain.

  • Stephen (31) remains consigned mainly to teen flicks (though he won acclaim for his supporting role in The Usual Suspects ). Textbook example: the 1996 comedy Bio-Dome , where he plays opposite ex-MTV star Pauly Shore.

  • Burn Rate, currently all the rage in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street and excerpted in the June Wired to wide acclaim, deserves our attention for its panoramic treatment of the Internet's boom years and its pus-ugly picture of the get-rich psyche.

  • Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.


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