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verb

accompany

CEFR B1

be present or associated with an event or entity

In a sentence

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

  • A short sharp salad should accompany the braised pork, because the fat needs something acidic beside it.

    Cooking

  • A printed lyric sheet used to accompany every album, and collectors still pay extra for records that kept theirs.

    Music

  • A short caption should accompany every image in the exhibit, naming the place and the year without explaining the picture.

    Photography

  • Rising wages usually accompany a tight labor market, though this time they lagged the job numbers by nearly two years.

    Economics

  • A sworn statement must accompany the application, or the clerk returns the whole package unread.

    Law

  • Detailed footnotes accompany every figure in the annual report, and the careful reader starts with those.

    Finance

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