accelerate

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

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains accelerate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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