How to Use acceleration in a Sentence

acceleration

noun
  • There has been an acceleration in economic growth.
  • There has been some acceleration in economic growth.
  • The car delivers quick acceleration.
  • This acceleration can be achieved in two ways.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Costs soar, but strong earnings beat and raise , and a sharp acceleration is on the way.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Or maybe just the acceleration of your heart.
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • First gear is a very low ratio to help with acceleration.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • EVs are known for fast acceleration, but this might stand out for its class.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There were also quite a few acceleration tests along the way.
    — Tim Stevens, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In other forms of tow sports, faster acceleration is the norm.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • On the flip side, acceleration could have the seat slam backward.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2023
  • The plan should view 'learning loss' through the lens of acceleration.
    — Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
  • His skating can be one of his best strengths between his long stride and acceleration.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • If a robot is falling, that’s a very fast, hard acceleration to get the leg in front in time.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2026
  • So far, just a check back to the shortest of trend lines set by the acceleration higher in the past month.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In this reading, midlife is not the end of the road but women’s acceleration phase.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • There wasn’t much body roll in turns, and very little dive or squat in hard breaking and acceleration.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2021
  • There are good acceleration zones out of the chicanes.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • That was the biggest thing for me, just the straight-line speed, the acceleration and the braking.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2022
  • The acceleration in the purchase needs to match it.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Trust the acceleration arriving to you this month and use it well.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2026
  • To be sure, the core year-on-year figure marks a slight acceleration from June.
    — Sean Conlon,brian Evans, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
  • These drugs are one part of the acceleration in health insurance costs.
    — Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The acceleration was fueled by the biggest jump in costs of hotel stays in more than a year.
    — Reade Pickert, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The best way to think about inflation is an acceleration of prices in a basket of goods.
    — Gwynn Guilford, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Even its acceleration – a weak point in past Priuses – is quite good.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • His feet, his acceleration, his ability to play on all three downs.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This is set to increase with the acceleration in climate change.
    — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Its acceleration roars are music to the ears of any gearhead.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For a machine that weighs the better part of three tons, such acceleration is amazing.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Dec. 2022

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