In a sentence
Six example sentences with accumulation, each labelled with its topic.
Decades of sediment accumulation raised the riverbed until spring floods began spilling over banks that once held.
Environment
The steady accumulation of small monthly deposits outpaced her one lucky stock pick over twenty years.
Finance
Dust accumulation on the sensor showed as gray spots in every sky, and the retoucher spent hours removing them.
Photography
Snow accumulation on the glacier's upper slopes must outpace summer melt below, or the whole ice mass shrinks.
Science
Capital accumulation drove the region's growth, as each year's profits bought more looms than the year before.
Economics
The slow accumulation of silt closed the ancient harbor, and by 1400 the port city sat five miles from the sea.
History
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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