Example sentences for: accretion

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

  • (Clinton skillfully augmented this process by pacing any admissions he has been forced to make, so that each new one was just a small accretion on a large pile of old news.)

  • Studies have yet to resolve all the mechanisms of action of LC-PUFA, in particular the remarkable phenotypic differences between populations that consume different quantities of fish and fish oil in their diets [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] . Dietary LC-PUFA affect processes including: growth, neurological development, lean and fat mass accretion, reproduction, innate and acquired immunity, infectious pathologies of viruses, bacteria and parasites; and the incidence and severity of virtually all chronic and degenerative diseases including cancer, atherosclerosis, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and neurodegenerative, inflammatory, and skin diseases [ 6 7 8 9 10 11 ] . Due to lack of mechanistic knowledge, predictions for optimal intake of nutritionally important LC-PUFA remain vague and dietary recommendations simply relate to prevention of overt deficiency.

  • This is the distilled essence of Pollock's genius, a mysterious calligraphy stripped of the distraction of color or the accretion of layers of paint.

  • The migratory quality of lyrics--the fact that lines and whole verses traveled from this song to that one, from blues to mountain ballad or vice versa, regardless of origin or even sense--made for a sort of native Surrealism, a collage by accretion.

  • Over the decades, the Santa myth grew by accretion, adding layer after layer of sweet detail.


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