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How to use acclaim in a sentence

19 example sentences · verb, noun

Acclaim means to shout; to call out. Example: “Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.”

Examples of acclaim by meaning

verbTo express great approval (for).

  • a highly-acclaimed novel
  • a widely-acclaimed article

More sentences with acclaim

  • Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.From the entry critic
  • The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.From the entry harvest
  • Their latest album really knocked it back and received critical acclaim.From the entry knock back
  • His sculptural work never gained the acclaim his paintings did.From the entry sculptural
  • They have been recently propelled out of cultdom and into wider acclaim by a confluence of zeitgeists.2015 July 12, Kitty Empire, “King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard review – weird warriors wig out”, in Observer. From the entry cultdom
  • These restaurants were rooted in the concept of New Nordic Cuisine, and opened to widespread acclaim.2015, Andrew F. Smith, editor, Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover's Companion to New York City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 522. From the entry New Nordic Cuisine
  • Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.2005, Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music, page 12. From the entry coefficient
  • He wrapped up into Himself those who would voluntarily acclaim Him their Lord.2004, Harold Morton, Too Hot to Handle, page 159. From the entry wrap up
  • The singer whose songs are judged best by popular acclaim becomes "king" for the year.1952, The American Magazine, volume 154, New York, N.Y.: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 97, column 1. From the entry chantwell
  • Despite the high acclaim and wide acceptance of Bede's work, centuries later, medieval computists were still working on the same problem.2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013. From the entry computist
  • Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Brat Pack
  • Hopefully, freezers capable of producing these deadly instruments will be done away with forthwith and by public acclaim.2002 December 26, FACE, “Turkeys should be banned in the UK”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet), archived from the original on 13…. From the entry freezery
  • The path to international tours and critical acclaim started in a small town outside Glasgow with a story that sounds familiar.1991 November 3, Todd Allan Yasui, “Limelight”, in The Washington Post, page g03. From the entry Battlefielder
  • His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books.1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XLIII, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September…. From the entry Parnassus
  • Whilst Kate Nash has stuck to releasing interesting music with critical acclaim in the years since, she's never hit the same commercially successful heights again.2024 November 26, Harrison Brocklehurst, “Kate Nash is using OnlyFans to fund her tour and her statement on why is utterly iconic”, in The…. From the entry OnlyFans
  • The carbon tax won acclaim from self-described socialists and red-blooded libertarians, Democratic senators and Republican secretaries of state, Elon Musk and Janet Yellen.2021 July 20, Robinson Meyer, “Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47”, in The Atlantic, archived from the…. From the entry red-blooded
  • He points out that Nydahl is now as famous for his gafia as he would have been if his annish had received the acclaim he expected.1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 6. From the entry annish

Meaning of acclaim

  1. verb To shout; to call out.
  2. verb To express great approval (for).
  3. verb To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.

Full definition of acclaim

Questions about acclaim in a sentence

How do you use acclaim in a sentence?
Acclaim is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.”
What is a short sentence with acclaim?
“a highly-acclaimed novel”
What does acclaim mean?
Acclaim means to shout; to call out.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acclaim (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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