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How to use accusation in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Accusation means the act of accusing. Example: “The supervisor was never fired, though countless accusations of dishonesty were afloat.”

Examples of accusation by meaning

nounAn allegation.

  • a blind accusation
  • an accusation of a crime

More sentences with accusation

  • The supervisor was never fired, though countless accusations of dishonesty were afloat.From the entry afloat
  • Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money.From the entry calumny
  • The party's staunchest stalwarts constitute the President's redoubtable bulwark against the latter bribery accusations.From the entry stalwart
  • I asked around and heard nothing concrete, just flutters of accusations of bad behavior.From the entry flutter
  • I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.From the entry retract
  • His secretaryship was marred by accusations of corruption, but the next secretary of state was called incompetent.From the entry secretaryship
  • We had to rebid the contract when accusations of fraud by other competitors occurred.From the entry rebid
  • Amid accusations of a cover-up, relatives of the deceased demanded a reautopsy.From the entry reautopsy
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:every accusation is a confession.From the entry every accusation is a confession
  • Although proven, the accusation was ignored by the court.From the entry although
  • Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.From the entry split
  • He levelled an accusation of fraud at the directors. The hunter levels the gun before taking a shot.From the entry level
  • That is a serious accusation, so make sure you have plenty of evidence before you point the finger at someone.From the entry point the finger at
  • The accusation was libelous, full of falsehoods, spite and malice.From the entry libelous
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accusations.From the entry accusations
  • It was an accusation that he flatly denied.From the entry flatly
  • That accusation is levelable at anybody.From the entry levelable
  • He called the Epstein story a “hoax,” his go-to move for maximally damaging accusations.2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic. From the entry go-to
  • Elsewhere, William writes, “The media makes a lot of horrible accusations against incels.2023 January, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, quoting William, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present…. From the entry blackpiller
  • Joshua has since unprivated his Instagram account to respond to Shannon’s accusations.2020 December 16, Rachel Yohannan, “Joshua Ang’s Ex-Wife Makes Domestic Abuse Allegations, Says He Threatened Her With Knife & Drill”, in…. From the entry unprivate
  • A Hindu nationalist party, the BJP has long faced accusations of anti-Muslim rhetoric.2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN. From the entry BJP
  • You fill in the details of this mythos with personal grievances and accusations.2016, Daniel Shapiro, “Uncovering Your Mythos of Identity”, in Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged…. From the entry mythos
  • I stood up for the kid and it got ugly, with accusations being thrown in both directions.2016, Brynn Bonner, Dead in a Flash, page 249. From the entry howdy
  • I think when you're refuting accusations of wrongdoing, seriositude is the way to go.2015, March 10. John Cole, "Hill's Presser", Balloon-juice.com. Comment by user "Bystander". From the entry seriositude
  • Flora would not sit around awaiting the next batch of accusations.2011, Maggie Pouncey, Perfect Reader, Anchor, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry indoorness
  • They just rushed to judgment without any notice of who her accusers were, what the accusations were.2007, Henry Jones, "Teacher Cleared of Having Sex with Students Sues School District," Hannity & Colmes, FOX News Network, August 27, 2007. From the entry Nifong
  • I do not level a blanket accusation of hoodwinkery and deception.1973, Bob Bartlett, quotee, Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports…. From the entry hoodwinkery
  • She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance to stray and irresponsible accusations.1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 196. From the entry becloud
  • Why should this accusation carry so much more sting with it than "beeishness"?1907, British Bee Journal, volume 35, page 29. From the entry beeishness
  • There are some accusations which will be resented, even by an anarchist.1901 August 15, El Paso Herald, El Paso, Tex., page two, column 3. From the entry tsaricidal
  • The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly.2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering…. From the entry anti-transmasculinity
  • Skyrocketing demand, limited supply, price gouging and monopoly accusations.2022 November 23, Augusta Saraiva, “Welcome to 'Swiftonomics': What Taylor Swift Reveals About the US Economy”, in Bloomberg, New York…. From the entry Swiftonomics
  • There are fingerpointers in our lives, as well—cruel and blatant accusations and deceptions of the enemy of our souls.2016, Cheryl Samelson Skid, “Introduction”, in Never Out of His Sight: Learning to Discern the Voices, Georgetown, Del.: Fruitbearer…. From the entry fingerpointer
  • VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations.2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN. From the entry multiglobal
  • Last month, eight people were detained on accusations of trying to publicize a self-immolation in Luchu County in Gansu Province.2013 January 16, Andrew Jacobs, “China Arrests 7 in New Effort to Stop Tibetan Self-Immolations”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry Luchu
  • Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.2011, Robert Graves, Wife to Mr Milton, →ISBN. From the entry racquet
  • Stanford, which filed a countersuit against the two men seeking repayment of certain loans, denied the men’s accusations.2009 February 13, Julie Creswell, “U.S. Agents Scrutinize Texas Firm”, in New York Times. From the entry countersuit
  • The Aussie gloveman hit back yesterday saying the accusations were worse than any wrongdoing he was alleged to have committed.2009 February 3, Richard Earle, “Btrad Haddin hits back at Daniel Vettori dig”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2009. From the entry gloveman

Meaning of accusation

  1. noun The act of accusing.
  2. noun A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
  3. noun An allegation.

Full definition of accusation

Questions about accusation in a sentence

How do you use accusation in a sentence?
Accusation is used as a noun. For example: “The supervisor was never fired, though countless accusations of dishonesty were afloat.”
What is a short sentence with accusation?
“a blind accusation”
What does accusation mean?
Accusation means the act of accusing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accusation (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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