How to Use accrue in a Sentence

accrue

verb

• I'll get back all the money I invested, plus any interest and dividends that have accrued.
• Players also accrue service time while on the injured list.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
• Passengers can pick their seat when buying a ticket, and can accrue points that win them status.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• Interest also can accrue, which can increase your student loan balance and total cost of your student loans.
  — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• People who sit a lot and don't accrue many steps in daily life are likely to need to work harder to fit in enough activity, Kraus said.
  — Jacqueline Stenson, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• The wars' financial costs will continue to accrue for years even now that the last U.S. soldier has left Afghanistan.
  — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• Remember, those who don’t meet tax due dates could face penalties and interest that will accrue until the situation is resolved.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
• During the forbearance, borrowers will not have to make payments on their federal student loans, and their balances will not accrue interest.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• Carrying credit card debt can cost you Carrying a balance from month to month can make your credit card debt more expensive in the long run due to accruing interest.
  — Cheyenne Devon, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
• On average, Black students who graduate with bachelor’s degrees accrue $7,400 more in debt than their white peers.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 Sep. 2021
• Sellers tend to argue that those reports are unnecessary for transfers, because the purchase takes place after the credits have accrued, Burton explained.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• Payments are deferred for the first 2 years (during which interest will accrue), and payments of principal and interest are made over the remaining 28 years.
  — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• Of the Twins’ 44 swings, the club accrued 19 swings and misses.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The YouTube video of the full event has accrued more than 3.3 million views.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The debt ceiling is the limit placed by Congress on the amount of debt the government can accrue.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Even as the story accrues the heft of personal tragedy, each scene seems to float or bob.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The impact of Brexit, in this telling, would accrue over time—so long as the government stuck to its guns.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• So if debt continues to accrue, that won’t be an option again for a while.
  — Blake Farmer, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2022
• Low on funds, the pair stopped a while in the Sunshine State in order to accrue funds and got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• The 2013 law caps that amount at the number of hours an employee accrues in one year and is permitted to cash out.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• FedExCup points are accrued over the year, with the top 70 players qualifying for the Playoffs at the end of the season.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 19 June 2024
• That opened the door for interest to start accruing Sept. 1 and for payments to come due starting Oct. 1.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Most workers accrue overtime to finish their heavy workloads, but many are too afraid to ask to be paid for it.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• Kivett broke down the logistics of the caloric burn that a ride on the under-desk elliptical should accrue.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• But provisions in the Build Back Better bill would limit some of the ways to accrue them in the future -- at least for high-income savers.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• Under the bill, employees will accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024
• As with the Instagram egg, the best way to accrue more content capital is to already have it.
  — The New Yorker, 4 June 2022
• The drop could also reflect some investors locking in profits that have accrued while the shares have climbed by more than 50% so far this year.
  — Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Teams will accrue points in the skills competition leading up to the flag football games on Sunday.
  — cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
• The track has accrued more than 7.7 million Spotify streams and become a fan favorite at his shows.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024