accumulate

In a sentence

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

• Small monthly deposits accumulate into a retirement balance large enough to surprise savers who ignored the account for decades.

  Finance

• Fat and browned bits accumulate at the bottom of the roasting pan, and by evening they become the gravy base.

  Cooking

• Sediment layers accumulate on the lake bed so slowly that a single inch can represent two hundred years.

  Science

• Centers who accumulate three fouls before halftime spend the third quarter on the bench watching the lead evaporate.

  Basketball

• Daily quests let players accumulate tokens slowly, and the rarest mount costs about four months of steady logins.

  Gaming

• Log files accumulate on the server until the disk fills, which is why the cleanup job runs every Sunday.

  Technology

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