How to Use accrue in a Sentence

accrue

verb
Definition of accruenext
Synonyms for accruenext
  • I'll get back all the money I invested, plus any interest and dividends that have accrued.
  • Of the Twins’ 44 swings, the club accrued 19 swings and misses.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The YouTube video of the full event has accrued more than 3.3 million views.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
  • Even as the story accrues the heft of personal tragedy, each scene seems to float or bob.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Low on funds, the pair stopped a while in the Sunshine State in order to accrue funds and got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The 2013 law caps that amount at the number of hours an employee accrues in one year and is permitted to cash out.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That opened the door for interest to start accruing Sept. 1 and for payments to come due starting Oct. 1.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Most workers accrue overtime to finish their heavy workloads, but many are too afraid to ask to be paid for it.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • The drop could also reflect some investors locking in profits that have accrued while the shares have climbed by more than 50% so far this year.
    — Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Teams will accrue points in the skills competition leading up to the flag football games on Sunday.
    — cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The track has accrued more than 7.7 million Spotify streams and become a fan favorite at his shows.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The company has accrued about $211 million to its profit-sharing pool and will be paid to team members in May.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • These loans do not accrue interest as long as the student is attending school at least part-time.
    — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • And as long as borrowers are enrolled in this plan, no interest will accrue on their loans!
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Johnson found the offer insulting but put the measure on the ballot in 2012 as the city’s problems continued to accrue.
    — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The job gains, however, did not accrue evenly across sectors.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 May 2023
  • There’s no denying that hosting any sort of party can accrue a certain amount of waste—but a wedding often takes things to the next level.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And of course, points accrued during wedding planning don’t have to be used for a honeymoon and can also come in handy around the wedding itself.
    — Carly Helfand, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
  • If the government does close down, Oct. 1 payments for student loans will still be due (and interest will still accrue).
    — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • After someone starts the process to dispute their ticket, all fees are frozen, so Kennedy didn't have to pay her ticket for fear of accruing fees, Shepherd added.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • While a payment agreement is in effect, the late-payment penalty (i.e. failure-to-pay penalty) accrues at half the normal rate.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That band accrued 17 turns in charge of the competitive chart during their years together.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Williams, who is back in school and accruing more debt with her student loans, is thankful to have services like Klarna to help feed her family.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • The Times’ own thread on X about the investigation received 15.5 million views, according to the platform — a fourth of the views that Brand’s pre-emptive video accrued.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But there’s also a flip side to the story that rarely gets discussed—the benefits that have accrued to workers due to technology.
    — Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In the meantime, the plan ensures balances will not grow if a borrower's monthly payment is less than the amount of interest that is supposed to accrue each month.
    — Robert Farrington, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • But for payers, who shrewdly calculate that those savings may accrue over years, the game is to avoid paying right now and ideally to get someone else to pay down the road.
    — Roy Perlis, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Member communities may accrue five years of cost-share funds.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Yet that praise is always well-considered, and the comps Bailey continues to accrue already put him in a very high-rent catching district.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023

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