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Example sentences for: accolade

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The ultimate accolade came in 1991, when Dublin was designated a European City of Culture.
“You puff the poets of other days, the living you deplore; spare me the accolade: your praise is not worth dying for.”
Winchester is getting very rich from a story pretty well known to many people interested in dictionaries—particularly Elizabeth Knowles of OUP who unearthed basic information and is rightly given, by Winchester, what he would call a fulsome accolade.
Back on the main road, some 5 km (3 miles) from Estellencs, take in perhaps the finest view of the entire coast — quite an accolade — from the snail-shaped 16th-century tower of the Mirador de Ses Ànimes.
Indeed, he has evolved into a "very fine person," according to his ex-wife--humbled by years of psychotic helplessness, buoyed up by the intellectual world's highest accolade.