Example sentences for: accolade

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

  • The tough little runabout has certainly won an accolade from the motoring press.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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