How to use accuse in a sentence

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• Shakespeare's King Lear accuses Cordelia of undaughterly conduct.From the entry undaughterly
• How dare you accuse me like that!From the entry how dare you
• How dare she accuse me like that?From the entry how dare someone
• I sidled closer and heard the pointer accuse the other man of cheating.2020, J.M. Griffin, Who’s Dead, Doc?, Kensington Books, →ISBN. From the entry pointer
• This prompted the TSSA to accuse ScotRail of trying to divide and conquer.2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62. From the entry divide and conquer
• Some may accuse me of goysplaining – him being Jewish, me not.2017 April 6, Giles Fraser, “Israel makes sense only from the perspective of Passover”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry goysplaining
• The practice has come under attack, especially by academics who accuse neuromarketers of selling junk science.2015 November 3, Kevin Randall, “Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try to Read Your Mind”, in New York Times. From the entry neuromarketer
• Last week, I overheard one editor at the Crimson accuse another of being a lexiphane.2014 April 11, Noah B. Pisner, “Big words and their use on campus”, in Harvard Magazine, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Magazine Inc., →OCLC…. From the entry lexiphanicism
• Too many commentators are quick to accuse their enemies of being evil.2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13. From the entry div
• Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition. From the entry manhaul
• To calumniate is to accuse falsely with the perlocutionary intention to mislead and "misaccuse"2009, Daniel Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use, →ISBN. From the entry misaccuse
• In time, Peacock supporters would accuse Howard of white-anting Peacock′s leadership.2008, Peter Van Onselen, Wayne Errington, John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography, page 102. From the entry white-ant
• To accuse a movement of being reactionary, we must understand what is meant by reactionaryism.2000, Advocate of Dialogue, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry reactionaryism
• It has been one week since my last confession, I accuse myself of: lies, disobeyances, fights.1991, Kathryn Thompson, “The Sisters Almeda and Alfreda”, in Close Your Eyes and Think of Dublin: Portrait of a Girl (On the Edge: New…. From the entry disobeyance
• A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.1985, Michael Lynch, Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science, page 218. From the entry misshoot
• When a guard accuses him of being stupid, he merely outsmarts him.1979 July 8, Joyce J. Persico, “Talking pictures: ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ taut, desperate thriller”, in Sunday Times Advertiser, Trenton…. From the entry nailclipper
• If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232. From the entry put out
• Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility.1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection…. From the entry megalopsychos
• He accuses the women of having cicisbei, the girls of having lovers.1962, WH Auden; Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 452. From the entry cicisbeo
• Certainly no one can accuse a bunch of hypos of lying dormant during the noon-hour.1953, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, News and Views, page 30. From the entry hypo
• No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen.1913: Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics, pages page 152 (2008 publication). From the entry fetich
• Plus: Cisco discloses a zero-day with no available patch, Venezuela accuses the US of a cyberattack, and more.2025 December 20, Andy Greenberg, “Hackers Stole Millions of PornHub Users’ Data for Extortion”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé…. From the entry zero-day
• He accuses philosophers like Daniel Dennett of "reversifying" the term "consciousness" by providing a reductionist interpretation of experiential phenomena (ibid).2024, Majid D. Beni, Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency. From the entry reversify
• The Castilla-La Mancha regional government accuses Fraguas Revive of illegally occupying the site, which lies within a natural park.2023 February 27, Stephen Burgen, “Spanish activists end attempt to revive abandoned village after 10 years”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry requisition
• Greene accuses the very people who strive to follow the teachings of Jesus as being directed by forces of evil.2022 May 11, David B. Gowler, “Marjorie Taylor Greene's version of Christianity is a massive betrayal of the teachings of Jesus”, in…. From the entry the call is coming from inside the house
• Baffles me how anyone can accuse gendercrits of lacking compassion.2020 September 9, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter. From the entry gendercrit
• He really gets soil!”) This won’t do much to calm the greens who accuse him of a brand of eco-capitalism.2014 August 20, Lucy Siegle, “Patrick Holden: 'People’s image of farming is a complete fantasy'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry ecocapitalism
• Responding, the men accuse the women of being metrophobic and metrobashing them, so they decide to have a metropride parade.2014, Leslie Stratyner, James R. Keller, The Deep End of South Park, page 116. From the entry metrophobic
• Men accuse agnates of their own generation of bewitching them.2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203. From the entry agnate
• No one would accuse the “Madonnabes” – the women who copied the pop star – of being demure.2013 April 14, Jacqueline Cutler, “The ’80’s: The Decade That Made Us”, in TVWeek (The Miami Herald), page 46TV. From the entry Madonnabe
• I realized sadly that I did not call for my parents because I felt they would accuse me of being fast-tailed.2006, La'Kesha Price, Thru Thick and Thin. From the entry fast-tailed
• I'm more or less agreeing with you too (but don't let Moby hear-he'll accuse me of me tooing).2002 July 19, Ken Higgs <kenhiggs8@hotmail.com>, “Re: Bring on the Aussies...”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet). From the entry me too
• How dare you accuse His Royal Highness?!2002, Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, "Kirby Comes to Cappy Town" (season 1, episode 1). From the entry kingy
• The farmer would accuse his son of idleness; the son would retort that his father was a drunken gawm.2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 10. From the entry gawm
• "It's rather ridiculous to complain that she keeps to herself; and then accuse her of vamping the whole male population."1936, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Vampire of the Village”, in The Penguin Complete Father Brown, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London…. From the entry vamp
• Yellow vest protesters accuse Mr Macron of protecting the Parisian elite, especially the rich, while neglecting the hardship of citizens in the provinces.2019 November 16, “Yellow vest protests: More than 100 arrested as violence returns to Paris”, in BBC News. From the entry yellow vest
• The suit does not accuse Mrs.2011 June 16, Associated Press. From the entry command responsibility
• Go tell dem natty dreadlocks no wear handcuff,” advises Damian Marley, his guest star and younger brother, who accuses the officers of jealousy.2007 February 25, Sia Michel, “Stephen Marley in Tallahassee, M.I.A. in India and Klaxons on Fire”, in New York Times. From the entry dem
• I have my own notions, though I hesitate to expound too deeply lest anyone accuse me of taking things Floydian too seriously.2005, Russel Reising, Speak To Me: the legacy of Pink Floyd's The dark side of the moon, page xiii. From the entry Floydian

Meaning of accuse

1. verb To find fault with, blame, censure.
2. verb To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
3. verb To make an accusation against someone.

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Questions about accuse in a sentence

How do you use accuse in a sentence?

Accuse is used as a verb and noun. For example: “For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.”

What is a short sentence with accuse?

“The suit does not accuse Mrs.”

What does accuse mean?

Accuse means to find fault with, blame, censure.