ACCENTUATE in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for ACCENTUATE, such as:
1. The father's smile became more accentuated.
2. The tight jumper only accentuated his fat stomach.
3. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.
4. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.
5. He was a man of purpose, a fine talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures.
2. The tight jumper only accentuated his fat stomach.
3. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.
4. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.
5. He was a man of purpose, a fine talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures.
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Meanings and Examples of ACCENTUATE
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accentuate
v. to stress, single out as important
v. put stress on; utter with an accent
Classic Sentence:
1 Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.
2 This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.
3 Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible at that word fillette, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by the granduncle and the grandnephew.
4 Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5 He was a man of purpose, a fine talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
6 The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made it felt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7 The father's smile became more accentuated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
8 The mask of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by honest mud.
9 She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.
10 She did not want to display her condition in this poorly fitting black dress which accentuated rather than hid her figure.
11 At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's.
12 The face of the male Thenardier presented that expressive fold which accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears there in all its bestial force.
Example Sentence:
1 John said the overwhelming demand for transportation fuels will again accentuate the need for increased drilling, but that might take months.
2 The tight jumper only accentuated his fat stomach.