accoladein a sentence
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The Heisman Trophy is the highest accolade in college football.
accolade = award or public praise
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And though she was granted many accolades— including an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—she never once accepted the invitations to speak at universities and museums.
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accolades = public praise and/or awards
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You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with "personality," and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone.
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accolade = public praise
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Accolades just wash off them, they shy away from the spotlight, but in the end they have one precious reward-when their days of combat are over, they know precisely who they are and what they stand for.
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accolades = public praise and/or awards
- Tonight, three thousand miles from home, the accolade had resurfaced to haunt him at the lecture he had given.† (source)
- "I assume your accolades will be forthcoming in writing," Mama replied.† (source)
- And every time she'd risen to a new thousand, she received so many accolades, and felt she was repaying Annie in particular, that it drove her on.† (source)
- He duly accepted their accolades and then walked clumsily away, as if his boots were made of lead.† (source)
- This work is about the "long run," not just for today, for any possible accolades or to meet funding deadlines—but for the adequate and full protection, health and balance, as Native elders say, of our young people seven generations from now.† (source)
- "However," Kvothe continued, "in spite of these accolades he seems to be a bit innocent of the ways of the world as demonstrated by his plentiful lack of wit in making a near-suicidal attack on what I guess is the first of the folk he has ever had the luck to see."† (source)
- But in fact she needed to hear whatever Esther had to say Esther said a number of useless things but she needed to know someone was out there preparing a space, making time for her and uttering her name and passing on stray accolades from whatever shadowy source.† (source)
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- Even though they had put the past behind them, Shawn had remained understandably skeptical throughout Adam's attempts at sobriety and had withheld any accolades—until now.† (source)
- It seemed he could see the crystal light still, in the sardonic hall of his memory; hear the shout of accolade, empty in a husked land that stood even then hopeless against a gray ocean of time.† (source)
- He shrugged as if modesty prevented him from accepting their accolades.† (source)
- After he finished his wine, Wade would call them and receive their accolades.† (source)
- They were also admitted into the Nuevo Leon Sports Hall of Fame, and to cap off their accolades, the headmasters of Nuevo Leon University and Tec de Monterrey presented each player with a full scholarship for the remainder of his education.† (source)
- Everyone screamed, "Connor!" who received the accolade with typical bravura, wiping away fake tears.† (source)
- And while she did, she found herself agreeing with Sarah's accolade.† (source)
- I remembered his tiny leaps up toward me after the VMI game and I regretted I had not looked down from the shoulders of my roommates, from the accolades of the crowd, looked down and done the right thing for once in my life, the grand and perfect gesture.† (source)
- If it is accolades you desire, mighty dwarf, then you shall have them!† (source)
- They serve their term, they collect their accolades, and then they go forth into the world to make money.† (source)
- Frankie, whose manly power to charm women was always impressive, received the highest accolade in my mother's power.† (source)
- Being hailed as "a good man," Herb had my mother's highest accolade, one she bestowed on very few.† (source)
- Glick and Macri, at the camerlegno's suggestion, had nobly agreed to provide light to the quest, although considering what accolades awaited them if they got out of here alive, their motivations were certainly suspect.† (source)
- Actually he accorded President Bush the highest accolade, the gold-plated Congressional Medal of Honor awarded by the surf gods: He's a real dude, man, a real dude.† (source)
- Regis accepted the spokesman's offer and all of the other numerous gifts that rolled in from every city, for though he hadn't truly earned the accolades awarded him, he justified his good fortune by considering himself a partner of the unassuming drow.† (source)
- He was devout in his desire to be a good man; he would bestow the accolade of his love upon nothing but a Virgin; he would marry himself to none but a Pure Woman.† (source)
- Eugene shrank back gently as the little man walked past him: that small priestly figure in black bore on him the awful accolade of his great Mistress, that smooth face had heard the unutterable, seen the unknowable.† (source)
- "Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight," said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon's sword—"rise, and seat thyself.† (source)
- And I recognized it for the accolade it was.† (source)
- They are doubly dangerous in their vicious ire Because they destroy us with what we admire, And their piety, which gains them an accolade, Is a tool to slay us with a sacred blade.† (source)
- As he had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole point of being dubbed a knight lay in the accolade and in the slap on the shoulder, and that could be administered in the middle of a field; and that he had now done all that was needful as to watching the armour, for all requirements were satisfied by a watch of two hours only, while he had been more than…† (source)
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