ACCOMMODATING in a Sentence

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100 example sentences for ACCOMMODATING, such as:

1. The carriage would not accommodate so many.
2. The price includes accommodation and car rental.
3. We can provide accommodation for six people at a push.
4. Many old people choose to live in sheltered accommodation.
5. The price for the holiday includes flights and accommodation.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACCOMMODATING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
accommodating
 a.  helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man's humour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  For many days Cassy had been unusually gracious and accommodating in her humors; and Legree and she had been, apparently, on the best of terms.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  But these fears proved groundless, for Paul Ivanovitch displayed an extraordinary aptitude for accommodating himself to his new position.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  'The arbour there has done well,' he added, 'because it's acacia and lilac; they're accommodating good fellows, those trees, they don't want much care.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those, whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  In my ignorance I supposed that the little hotel existed for the purpose of accommodating the passengers who travelled on the stage-coach.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
8  That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
9  I hope I have learnt how to accommodate myself to the changes of life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
10  The carriage would not accommodate so many.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  Had Fabius, therefore, been King of Rome, he might well have caused the war to end unhappily, not knowing how to accommodate his methods to the change in the times.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX.
12  As we then had no room large enough to accommodate all who would be present, the place of meeting was under a large improvised arbour, built partly of brush and partly of rough boards.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
13  They preferred taking it out of doors, under the trees, and I set a little table to accommodate them.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  When my mother removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The local authority may assist you to obtain alternative accommodation.
17  First-class accommodation is available on all flights.
18  Some ministers will have to hot-desk until more accommodation can be found.
19  Hostels are usually provided as a stopgap until the families can be housed in permanent accommodation.
20  The building plans include much needed new office accommodation.
21  Many old people choose to live in sheltered accommodation.
22  Local housing authorities have been compelled by the housing crisis to make offers of sub-standard accommodation.
23  There are three categories of accommodation - standard, executive and deluxe.
24  The government will provide temporary accommodation for up to three thousand people.
25  I've offered to paint the kitchen in exchange for a week's accommodation.
26  The price includes accommodation and car rental.
27  Hotel accommodation is included in the price of your holiday.
28  The price for the holiday includes flights and accommodation.
29  We can provide accommodation for six people at a push.
30  Self-interest now propels both Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress to reach accommodation on issues that long have divided them.