How to Use account in a Sentence

account

1 of 2 noun
  • We opened new accounts at a bank last week.
  • I took out my money and closed my account.
  • We always keep very good accounts.
  • Every week, she puts a part of her paycheck into a separate account.
  • You can withdraw up to $1,000 a day from your account.
  • And the lyrics, by his own account, were a breeze to write.
    Robbie Daw, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The free bets will show up in your account within three days.
    Catena Media, al, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The teens’ names have not been released on account of their age.
    Fox News, 3 July 2020
  • All three have been busily adding to those accounts in the past six months.
    John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The account appears to be run by Rahaf and her friends.
    Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • This account is heavy on hearsay and so should be taken with a grain of salt.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 24 Feb. 2023
  • By his own account, he was sued more than 100 times over 2channel posts.
    Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Find the soundbar with the app, and register it to your account.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 13 June 2022
  • For that, just download the Nest app and create a Nest account.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Four of the eight funds in the account were missing in both online and print statements.
    Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • There are a lot of things to take into account when picking the right flip flop for you.
    Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Those tools were used to take control of the high-profile accounts.
    Margi Murphy, Fortune, 10 May 2023
  • At this point, the officer's account is the only one to emerge.
    Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2019
  • Take into account weight, both of the base and jar; plastic is the lighter option.
    Becky Krystal, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
  • Big names, to be sure, but of the four, only Amandla has her own account.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 June 2018
  • In fact, Moncrief got to shoot free throws on account of the initial foul.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2022
  • The post has since been deleted, and Karine has made her account private.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Don’t invest it or put it in a CD, put it in a savings account.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Does your mom need to live at the same address to share a streaming account or just be your mom?
    Heather Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • In return, withdrawals from the Roth account can be tax-free.
    Laura Saunders, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Closing accounts doesn’t help your scores and may hurt them.
    Liz Weston, oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The account shares quotes from fellow grievers, as well as tips on how to cope with loss.
    Juli Fraga, SELF, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The student who wrote this account could not be reached on Wednesday.
    Yanan Wang, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Much of Ikea’s gaming collection is designed to take this type of posture into account.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • There is no way of talking about noise without taking pleasure into account.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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account

2 of 2 verb
  • The fan vote accounts for 50% of the vote for starters.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
  • What the artist didn’t account for was the harshness of the Texas sun.
    Emma Balter, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Maybe the Stephen Rosses of the world will be held to account.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The Hoosiers’ first four drives of the first half had accounted for just 18.
    Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2020
  • But that alone does not account for the spike in cases.
    Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 17 June 2020
  • At that rate, GM would account for about 2% of the city’s taxes.
    Malathi Nayak, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The funding accounts for the full federal share of the project’s cost.
    al, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The prison has accounted for more than half the deaths in Columbiana County.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • But it’s the lovelorn who account for the most heart-rending cases.
    John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Speak up, speak out and hold those in power to account.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 May 2022
  • And that’s not even accounting for the stress of the buying process itself.
    Collin Woodard / Jalopnik, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That doesn’t account for those not killed by firearms, such as George Floyd.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 6 June 2020
  • Russia and Ukraine account for less than 1% of our sales.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Of the two, India accounts for about two-thirds of the global supply.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This may account for some of the racial differences in the new findings.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • How can the things that sparkle in the firmament be held to account for humans’ fleshy flaws?
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Now, those two large states account for just 6% of all cases.
    Maggie Fox, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
  • It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.
    Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The hazard to watch is falling demand at the lower bands that account for the vast bulk of sales.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In Florida, the cases in the central part of the state accounted for 81% of the total.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That being said, generic drugs account for the most use.
    Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The judges questioned whether the best way to make sure the contents of the boxes were accounted for was by opening all of them.
    Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Next, the media has been woefully late to hold Favre to account.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Lauderdale, but accounts differ as to whether or not the fliers stayed hidden in his car.
    Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 15 Feb. 2018
  • These combine to account for just under half of all hot car deaths.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Now members of the pro-Trump mob are arguing they shouldn’t be held to account.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The city has limited tools to bring high-risk drivers to account.
    Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • What accounts for Glossier’s cult status at its height?
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Agriculture accounts for the vast majority of the area’s water use.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Groundwater accounts for nearly 40% of California’s water supply in an average year and even more in dry years, according to the state board.
    Amy Taxin, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024

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