In a sentence
Six example sentences with accelerate, each labelled with its topic.
The guard waits for the screen, then accelerates into the lane before the defender can slide across to help.
Basketball
Sprint intervals teach the body to accelerate from a jog to full speed without wasting three strides finding rhythm.
Fitness
The train barely seems to accelerate leaving the platform, yet within four minutes the vineyards outside are a green blur.
Travel
The lighter kart accelerates faster out of every corner, which matters more on the twisty tracks than top speed.
Gaming
A dropped ball will accelerate at the same rate as a dropped feather once the air is pumped out of the tube.
Science
The glacier accelerated toward the sea once the ice shelf holding it back broke apart in 2002.
Environment
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Found in 9 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- Computer Science Word ListAuthoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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