Example Sentences

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The whole question in every high school and every preparatory school is whether the training will accredit one to certain colleges and universities.

From Analyzing Character by Blackford, Katherine M. H.

It is but natural to expect that our dearest friends will accredit us with our deepest feelings; and Gertrude had constituted Edmund Severn her dearest friend.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

The Senator will give me a letter to the Governor, who in turn will accredit me to the authorities at Washington and the officer in command on the battlefield.

From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson

Here, take my ring; it will accredit you as our envoy.

From The Ferryman of Brill and other stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles

However, if from epigram, derivative or pure absurdity, there be born a single laugh between the lids, the laborer will accredit himself worthy of his hire.

From The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Wurdz, Gideon