acclaim

In a sentence

Six example sentences with acclaim, each labelled with its topic.

• Her second album drew acclaim from critics who had dismissed the first one as a competent imitation.

  Music

• The little noodle shop won such acclaim after the review that the queue now forms an hour before opening.

  Cooking

• The library earned wide acclaim for its daylight, though several critics still complain that the entrance is impossible to find.

  Architecture

• The rookie's defense earned quiet acclaim from coaches long before the highlight shows noticed his scoring.

  Basketball

• The paper won immediate acclaim from geneticists, who had spent a decade waiting for a cheaper sequencing method.

  Science

• Early acclaim from a few enthusiastic bloggers brought the app ten thousand signups before it had a pricing page.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains acclaim. 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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