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How To Use accrue In A Sentence

• He claimed that the Chief of the USAR at the time, told him that he didn't need to re-enlist (he had only accrued two good years for retirement in the 4 years he was back on the books) and to keep singing for the troops. Heroes or Villains?
• But wisdom does not automatically accrue to an individual because he or she lived through certain seminal events.
• The Protestant Reformers defined the Roman doctrine of Works as a form of barter system, whereby believers could accrue spiritual benefits for themselves and salvation through their performance.
• The second right about to accrue to married women is the right to pay their own debts. Times, Sunday Times
• The interest accrued over the months.
• More intangible benefits accrue from the learning process and are missed or under-appreciated by the Air Force; they are often missed even by the graduating student.
• Samuelson's fears are similarly overdone because just as productivity in Duluth accrues to economic activity in Dallas, so will Chinese growth be ours, and ours theirs.
• We desperately need a budget process in which respected, nonpartisan experts have real standing to publicly evaluate budget numbers, with less focus on meeting immediate spending or deficits and greater focus on long-term accrued obligations. Chicagotribune.com - News
• Within this top 1%, the largest wealth gains accrued to people with household net worth over $50 million.
• Effectively the delay enables banks to accrue interest which is effectively ours.