How to Use accession in a Sentence

accession

noun

• With the accession of his father King Charles, Prince William is now the heir to the throne.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
• This month's change of reign will come on the 52nd anniversary of her accession.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
• But things have not gone according to plan – in fact, almost from the start, the accession process has hit some bumps in the road.
  — Marja Heinonen, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• Due to the pandemic, his accession to crown prince and as next in line to the throne took place privately in 2020, per the BBC.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• The day will mark the anniversary of the 83-year-old monarch's accession to the throne after the death of her father, King Frederik IX, 52 years ago.
  — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 2 Jan. 2024
• In December, the E.U. will decide whether to open accession talks with Kyiv.
  — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Finland joined the alliance in April even though the two Nordic countries had initially agreed to work on the accession process in lock-step.
  — Kevin Whitelaw, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
• But the overall aim must be finding a pathway for Kyiv’s accession.
  — Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• The book also had two accession numbers, which were used to identify the library’s books at the time of its founding.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Queen Elizabeth served as the ceremonial head of the Church of England since her accession to the throne in 1952.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2023
• On the anniversary of her accession to the throne in February, the queen moved to end the long-running controversy over the status of Charles’ wife.
  — Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
• Past enlargements have shown the enormous benefits both for the accession countries and the EU.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The King, 74, marked the anniversary of his mother's death and his own accession quietly at Balmoral.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• The alliance has also been boosted by Finland, a new member as of last year and one with a large standing army, and by the likely accession of Sweden.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• However, royal watchers were quick to spot that the crest needs an update following King Charles' accession to the throne in 2022.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
• On the day of her accession to the Throne, Great Britain continued to suffer the economic and societal aftershocks of world war.
  — Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Turkish parliament’s ratification of the accession protocol is one of the last steps in the process.
  — Karl Ritter, Suzan Fraser and Lorne Cook, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• King Charles will privately mark the first anniversary of his accession in Scotland.
  — Town & Country, 24 July 2023
• The palace made the announcement hours after the first accession ceremony since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
  — Jill Lawless, Danica Kirka and Sylvia Hui, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Under the accession rules, any member state can veto a new country from joining.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Queen Mary of Denmark ringing in her first birthday since her husband King Frederik’s accession.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• The King is expected to mark the anniversary of her death and his accession privately at the castle on Friday September 8.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2023
• After scanning the documents, The Post found at least 384 accession files linked directly to Hrdlicka.
  — Nicole Dungca, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Dorothy Wilding, who took the accession photographs in 1952, focused on Elizabeth's youth and beauty, and had some prints hand-colored.
  — Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• Neighboring Sweden also applied, but its accession process may take a few months longer.
  — Lorne Cook and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The war prompted Norway’s Scandinavian neighbors Finland and Sweden to seek accession to the treaty.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• Another idea is to invite Ukraine to begin accession talks, a model borrowed from the EU enlargement process.
  — Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2024
• In the days following the queen's death, Charles was formally proclaimed as monarch in an accession ceremony and gave his first formal address as king.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• There was a price for his victory, negotiated in secret with some of the 20 hard-right Republicans who had blocked his accession for five days and 14 votes.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 13 Jan. 2023
• Hungary and Turkey, the only holdouts, held up Sweden’s accession until this year.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024