How to Use accretion in a Sentence

accretion

noun
  • There was an accretion of ice on the car's windshield.
  • As a result, the accretion game no longer worked.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Baseball is a game of accretion, in which no single game matters all that much.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Along with the accretion of hardware and new tools came the less desirable.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2020
  • This disc forms near the black hole’s edges and the gas in the accretion disc becomes extremely hot.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
  • He’s also buried under an accretion of myth and myth-busting.
    — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Travel conditions will be hazardous due to a tenth of an inch of ice accretion.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There’s also the potential for a trace of ice accretion.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The accretion of ills surely skirts the edge of overwhelming.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • This is the first time that astronomers have seen an accretion disc in an extragalactic area.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Closer to a host star, gas giants are thought to form by the accretion of a large rocky core which then starts drawing in gas.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Astronomers believe this happens through a process called core accretion.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
  • As the matter gathers, a spinning disc called an accretion disc is forming.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Shell plates grow from the center outward by accretion, and eyes are added throughout the chiton’s life as the edge grows.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, the conditions would take too long for core accretion, if possible at all.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes, this results in the accretion of an especially large amount of star stuff.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Multi-day outages are likely with the greatest ice accretion.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • However, Bryant has tried to envisage a process of core accretion by halves.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 June 2025
  • These rates are flat values applied across the landscape and can be used to highlight how accretion can offset sea level rise.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The team found that the most likely explanation was that black holes could briefly exceed the limit placed on accretion.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • While much of the area escaped significant issues from ice, there are at least patchy zones of some heftier accretion.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The newfound drifter instead provides strong support for the core accretion model.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Many journalists contributed to the steady accretion of facts.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In Worcester County, the main impact will be ice accretion.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And since astronomers were finding more planets around those stars, it was taken as proof that core accretion was forming those planets.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2022
  • Black holes are often observable not directly, but by their accretion disc, a structure of hot gas and dust that gives off a bright glow.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Through a process called accretion, this dust condensed to form pebbles that collided and stuck together.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
  • In a process called accretion, the black hole in each active galaxy uses gravity to pull nearby gas inward.
    — Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024

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