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Example sentences for "accentuated"

Lexicographically close words:
accented; accenting; accents; accentual; accentuate; accentuates; accentuating; accentuation; accepi; accepit
  1. It is perfectly certain that, under Home Rule, this policy would be accentuated rather than reversed.

  2. The Irish famine of 1849 was not more severe than others that had preceded it, but its evil effects were accentuated by the policy of the English Government.

  3. Volpetti, alias the Count de Keller, in elegant traveling dress which accentuated his aristocratic Chateaubriand air, approached the Red Fish, followed by Brosseur.

  4. She instinctively accentuated the difference in their ranks; she no longer walked with him through the woods.

  5. As if the architect felt that he had thus over-accentuated the horizontal line, he bound his triforium and clearstory into one composition by continuous moldings, a precocious first step toward the glazed triforia of Rayonnant Gothic.

  6. He was an innovator who here first accentuated the upward sweep of Gothic lines.

  7. There are carved friezes at different levels, and the horizontal line is still further accentuated by balustrades.

  8. One bay follows another with a regularity that is accentuated by the interior elevation being in four stories--pier arcade, tribune arches, triforium wall arcade, and clearstory.

  9. The difficulty of explanation of twining movements is accentuated by a peculiarity in the response of tendrils which is extremely puzzling.

  10. In Egypt, of course, this has been accentuated by the seclusion and veiling of women.

  11. She had changed from her traveling suit to a gown of some soft, glossy material that accentuated the lines revealed by the discarded habit.

  12. It may be admitted that of late, with the fomentation of a more accentuated nationalism by politicians seeking a raison d'ĂȘtre, additional difficulties have been created in the way of naturalisation and the like incidents.

  13. It is true, a somewhat accentuated eagerness on the part of the Imperial establishment to get the maximum service in a minimum of time and at a minimum cost from these subject populations,--as, e.

  14. This appears to hold true in an accentuated degree in the domain of that large-scale business that draws its gains from the large-scale modern industry and is managed on the modern footing of corporation finance.

  15. As now, but in an accentuated degree, the rights of ownership will, in effect, coincide and coalesce with the rights of investment and business management.

  16. I remember scores of little things like that, things done and things said with an incorruptible sweetness and affection, but things accentuated with lapsed aitches and with gestures that only Jimmy was unaware of.

  17. He had tried to depress and subdue it by hard brushing with a wet brush, but it continued to wave in spite of him, and the crests of the waves were silver, which accentuated them.

  18. And then suddenly the wall of the room parted like a curtain; to her ears came a cry of violins, dominated and accentuated by a blare of brass.

  19. In his face was an expression which a psychologist would have admired, a commingling of the vatic and the amused, accentuated by sarcasm.

  20. And as she stared, her father's attitude accentuated the words, reiterating that the avowal which had been wrung from him was not the impossible, but the truth.

  21. Her oblong ivory face, accentuated by a mass of unruly hair of a lustreless black, was never deserted by a faint glimmer of a smile, at once pensive and arch.

  22. But all this, far from marring the impressiveness of the place, accentuated and heightened the inarticulate tragedy of its aspect.

  23. But they invariably rivet our attention on the successful way in which the sculptor has used his bronze or marble to decorative ends, and when they are accentuated so as to dominate the idea they invariably enfeeble its expression.

  24. They are, in quite accentuated contra-distinction from the works of Greuze, thoroughly in the spirit of simplicity and directness.

  25. They embody, in distinguished manner and in an accentuated degree, the general inspiration.

  26. It gives no intimation of the faculty that produced the splendid gallery of medallions accentuated by an occasional bust and statue, of David's celebrated contemporaries and quasi-contemporaries in every field of distinction.

  27. To be saved by "the blood" in a realistic sense is another way very much accentuated by St. Paul.

  28. They both accentuated with the same fervour of conviction the futility of laying up treasure upon earth, and pointed to the same mysterious heaven where true joy alone was to be found.

  29. While it concealed some of the lines of her figure, the gown accentuated her erect, queenly carriage.

  30. But that day there were dark circles under her eyes, her lids were suspiciously red and there was a pallid hue in her cheeks that was accentuated by the dark blue silk suit she wore.

  31. This is accentuated by Henry Adams' Education.

  32. In such an environment they built shacks which only accentuated the loneliness--where women lived and children were born, where hopes were cherished and God was worshipped.

  33. The Flatiron Building with its accentuated leanness lured them on until we came to the open space of Madison Square and they were face to face with the Metropolitan tower.

  34. In our enforced idleness it was impossible for us to prevent our thoughts from dwelling on things to eat, and this naturally accentuated our craving.

  35. True, we would sometimes lapse into restaurant and home-dinner talks, but we fought against it as much as possible, realising that to permit our thoughts to dwell on good things to eat accentuated our distress.

  36. The brown surface of the field went right up towards the sky all round, where it was lost by degrees in the mist that shut out the actual verge and accentuated the solitude.

  37. Abby was in a black gown, with white linen cuffs and a broad white collar, and her figure, more developed than formerly, was accentuated by a bunch of daffodils that she wore on her left bosom.

  38. He was very pale and his pallor accentuated his projecting cheek bones and the hollows above, from the depths of which his large eyes gleamed with a glassy light.

  39. As he moved to and fro among the guests, his odd appearance was accentuated by the occasional contrast of the immaculately groomed contingent, and on this occasion the poet-peer was truly a figure of fun.

  40. So it was in the case of the American Ambassador, Mr. Bayard, who had accentuated features, overhanging eyebrows, and deeply set eyes.

  41. The bright light coming up from beneath gave the assembled guests a ghastly and weird appearance, accentuated no doubt by our increasing hunger.

  42. I was at the Fielding Club one evening when "Pelican" came crawling in, looking white and ill; blue circles round his eyes accentuated his look of misery.

  43. Father Shaw, of Longwood, accentuated the horrible condition of the party who refused to vote under his orders by asking his congregation to pray for them.

  44. The causes of Ireland's poverty are laziness and lack of enterprise, the latter accentuated by everlasting disturbance.

  45. She had known from the beginning of their acquaintance that he was an exceptional man; since his tragedy she had realized that the exceptional circumstances of his life had accentuated his individuality.

  46. The elements of tragedy in the drama were accentuated by the power to love possessed by accuser and accused.

  47. By fainting thus inopportunely, she had accentuated the falseness of the position.

  48. That wore a fixedness of amiability which accentuated the whole like a high light.

  49. To her woman's eyes, Fatigue was stamped upon it and anxiety, and a kind of rueful impatience, as he apologised for the necessity of the intrusion in fragmentary but excellently accentuated French.

  50. He stiffened his big body arrogantly, reddening with evident annoyance, and thickly through his carefully-accentuated English the Teutonic consonants and gutturals began to crop.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accentuated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    decided; emphatic; forceful; forcible; intense; italicized; pointed; positive; stressed