Sentence example with the word 'accentuate'

accentuate

accent, dwell on, give emphasis to, highlight, overaccentuate, overstress, point up, rub in, star, underline

Definition v. to stress

Last update: August 25, 2015


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Children sometimes suffer from low self-esteem when their parents constantly accentuate their mistakes.   [verb]

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Shades, texture and dapple are worked gently into the rocking horse body to accentuate the natural curves and muscles.   [verb]

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The Professor accentuated on British English.   [verb]

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On the other hand, unwise treatment may accentuate and perpetuate them, causing much misery and unhappiness.   [Please select]

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If you break it, your failure will be accentuated.   [Please select]

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The loneliness of the place was accentuated by the sad cadenzas of the mountain hermit thrushes.   [Please select]

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They accentuated the lifelessness, the petrifaction, the intense and sinister quiet of the prostrate city.   [Please select]

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He found it now, in the infinitesimal touches upon the expression of the face, in the minute increase in the depressions and accentuated lines in the anatomy of the figure.   [verb]

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Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.   [verb]

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