ACCOUNT in a Sentence

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400 example sentences for ACCOUNT, such as:
1. I don't have a bank account.
2. My bank account is in the red.
3. Happiness takes no account of time.
4. She gave an accurate account of the case.
5. I paid the cheque into my savings account.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ACCOUNT
account
 n.  a short account of the news
 n.  importance or value
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It gives a fairly good account of the affair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders upon it in addition.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  If the man is caught, it will be on account of their exertions; if he escapes, it will be in spite of their exertions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  This last was too much, however, and I gave him notice to leave on account of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
7  As to what occurred there, we cannot do better than quote the old hunter's own account, as duly recorded in Dr. Watson's Journal, to which we are already under such obligations.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  I've done my work now, and I don't care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of the business behind me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  I can vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined account, for I have had access to Lestrade's note-book, in which the prisoner's words were taken down exactly as they were uttered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
10  When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
11  You should publish an account of the case.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  The words weren't worth writing in the book bound like an account book in case Giles suspected.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
13  I have one great fault to find with Tom, however, which I cannot forgive, and for which I take him heavily to account.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  Next night again, when she came home with the same account, and added that he had not been heard of, she spoke in the same low frightened tone.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
15  Nobody was ever on any account to give anybody anything, or render anybody help without purchase.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1  This account gives you instant access to your money.
2  Some banks charge if you access your account to determine your balance.
3  Happiness takes no account of time.
4  An eyewitness account described the plane as a "fireball".
5  I don't have a bank account.
6  Jack could not account for his foolish mistake.
7  The store debited his account for the purchase.
8  My bank account is in the red.
9  The book gives an admirably succinct account of the technology and its history.
10  She gave an accurate account of the case.
11  I was called to account for my conduct by the headmistress.
12  He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
13  His current account was seriously overdrawn.
14  I paid the cheque into my savings account.
15  Switch to an interest-paying current account and stay in credit.