ACCOMPLISH in a Sentence

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A clever man persists through difficulties in the knowledge that nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without effort.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACCOMPLISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
accomplish
 v.  succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete
Classic Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ELEVEN
2  For every one must, at some time or other, have leave to speak to the prince, and whoever has this leave has opportunity to accomplish his design.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
3  Hanno, who has also been mentioned, failing to accomplish his object by poison, armed his partisans to the number of many thousands; but both he and they came to an ill end.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  But when fortune is not thus propitious to him, he must contrive other means to rid himself of rivals, and must do so successfully before he can accomplish anything.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXX.
5  Some half-hearted steps were taken to accomplish this, in part, by putting the whole matter again in charge of the special Treasury agents.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
6  And this the common schools and the manual training and trade schools are working to accomplish.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  I felt that I had reached the promised land, and I resolved to let no obstacle prevent me from putting forth the highest effort to fit myself to accomplish the most good in the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
9  I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
10  I wondered if I could accomplish anything, and if it were worth while for me to try.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
11  I am not sure if, in the long run, they do not accomplish as much or more than rushing, nervous Americans do.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
12  However, she was determined to accomplish it, for Rhett was coming to supper and he always noticed and commented upon any innovation of dress or hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  She had been brought up to believe that a woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed the plantation without men to help her until Will came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  All this the Thanatopsis Club was to accomplish with no difficulty whatever, since its several husbands were the controllers of business and politics.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  A clever man persists through difficulties in the knowledge that nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without effort.
17  John Fraser, is an accomplished descendant from the early days of journalists.
18  And he did "tackle it again" -- and under the double pressure of curiosity and prospective gain he did it with such spirit that he accomplished a shining success.
19  Even defensive battles distressed her, for the repulsion of enemy forces is never accomplished bloodlessly.
20  More poems should tell stories in accomplished ways.
21  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
22  It is provided in the contract that the work should be accomplished within a year.
23  Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
24  I accomplished two hours' work before dinner.
25  This task is accomplished by great effort.
26  The students accomplished the task in less than ten minutes.
27  The task was accomplished with comparative ease.
28  I want to savor this great moment of accomplishment.
29  For me to still stay on the podium is a great accomplishment for now.
30  Bessie's accounts of school-discipline were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishment attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.