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How to use accompany in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Accompany means to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with. Example: “Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.”

Examples of accompany by meaning

verbTo go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

  • Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.
  • He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.1979, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England

verbTo perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).

  • The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.
  • I will accompany her on the oboe.
  • The Ukrainian folk-song is cultivated orally by the blind singers (Kobsari) who accompany themselves on string instruments.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 185

verbTo be found at the same time.

  • Thunder almost always accompanies lightning during a rain storm.

More sentences with accompany

  • Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.From the entry rise
  • A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.From the entry protrusion
  • Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.From the entry smashing
  • When a minor is involved, tutelary powers frequently accompany powers of attorney.From the entry tutelary
  • The supermarket's unmatchably low prices were accompanied by a deliberate decline in quality.From the entry unmatchably
  • The word "ERROR" flashed up on the monitor, accompanied by a beeping sound.From the entry flash up
  • Outsiders visiting the facility must be accompanied by a passholding employee.From the entry passholding
  • Each illustration in the dictionary is accompanied by a sign gloss, like CAT or HAPPY.From the entry sign gloss
  • Might I beg leave to accompany you?From the entry leave
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accompanied.From the entry accompanied
  • Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.From the entry entry
  • Sir John Smith and Lady Smith accompanied the ambassador.From the entry lady
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accompanies.From the entry accompanies
  • The film made frequent use of intertitles: every scene change was accompanied by text describing the new location.From the entry intertitle
  • The imported milk was accompanied by a zoosanitary certificate.From the entry zoosanitary
  • The lusitanization of Brazil was accompanied by far higher levels of immigration than occurred in Angola or Mozambique.From the entry lusitanization
  • The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.From the entry heathendom
  • The actual reading of the text itself is accompanied by certain common paralexical and extratextual features. The paralexical features are the intonational contours and stress patterns given the oral reading.From the entry paralexical
  • My heart fluttered like a kaleidoscope of butterflies, accompanied by an ocean of joyful tears.2026, Lyndon Fitzgerald Harris, Forgiveness at Ground Zero: A Journey of Service, Loss, and Redemption After 9/11, Bloomsbury Publishing…. From the entry kaleidoscope
  • When it is not accompanied by anything else, we have a one-word phrase.2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry phrase
  • Other terms like "hot rodent boyfriend" or "hot rodent summer" have accompanied this truly unique time.2024 June 14, Anthony Robledo, “Who are hot rodent men of the summer? Meet the internet's favorite type of celebrity”, in USA Today…. From the entry hot rodent man
  • A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F.2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023. From the entry Christopher
  • Research on Esperanto is accompanied by a dilemma that has the character of a catch-22 situation.2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “Methods and data” (chapter 5), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John…. From the entry catch-22
  • The couple’s romance, captured with intimate closeups and accompanied by a jaunty Europop soundtrack, is rapturous.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry happily ever after
  • The morphological changes are accompanied by the establishment of a well-differentiated dorso-ventral pigmentation pattern.2019 September 20, Patricia I. S. Pinto, Cláudia C. Guerreiro, Rita A. Costa, et al., “Understanding pseudo-albinism in sole (Solea…. From the entry chromoblast
  • The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251. From the entry Devanagari
  • However, studyblrs do acknowledge the difficulties that accompany being a student, especially those in graduate school.2018, Bonnie Wong, Study Breaks, volume 30, number 5, page 39. From the entry studyblr
  • Dionysus was accompanied by a joyful, winedrunk procession of Satyrs, Silens and maenads.2018 May 1, Jan Bouzek, Studies of Homeric Greece, Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry winedrunk
  • The slick of grease that normally accompanies deep dish is notably absent, even with the sausage pizzas.2018 April 10, Nick Kindelsperger, “Is Chicago's best deep dish hiding in a glorified food court?”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, I.L.…. From the entry deep dish
  • The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua.2017, Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean…. From the entry tum tum
  • Mild to severe endo-and myocarditis was accompanied by a similar degree of epicarditis.2015 July 16, “First Description of a New Disease in Rainbow Trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum)) Similar to Heart and Skeletal Muscle…. From the entry epicarditis
  • Hefty patties stacked high with fresh toppings are accompanied by a basket of “frings”–fries and rings.2015, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide USA, page 713. From the entry frings
  • All he knew is that the good life accompanied urinating wherever he pleased.2014, Jim Heynen, “Keeping One’s Secret”, in Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry urinator
  • The pilot fish accompanied its lord and master to the last second.2013, Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry lord and master

Meaning of accompany

  1. verb To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
  2. verb To supplement with; add to.
  3. verb To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

Full definition of accompany

Questions about accompany in a sentence

How do you use accompany in a sentence?
Accompany is used as a verb. For example: “Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.”
What is a short sentence with accompany?
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:accompanied.”
What does accompany mean?
Accompany means to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accompany (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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