How to Use acquiescence in a Sentence

acquiescence

noun
  • Gaze low, the boy muttered an acquiescence to give the test a try.
    — Lara N. Dotson-Renta, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
  • Any group decision comes with a degree of acquiescence and a leap of faith.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
  • This lack of callout could be construed as a form of acquiescence that the delusion is apt.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In some places, acquiescence or refusal are easy ways to make a public statement.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Stage two was Vichy-regime acquiescence to him during the campaign.
    — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Your daughter-in-law's antipathy to you has withstood the test of time, as has your child's acquiescence to it.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • He had been appointed, with Nixon’s grudging acquiescence, to do what he was then fired for.
    — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 10 May 2017
  • On the acquiescence of this government in the murder of the Jews.
    — CBS News, 7 July 2021
  • Each inch of reins wrapped around his hands and each ounce of pressure cutting into his palms seemed to lessen the acquiescence of the beasts in his charge.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
  • This is a story that traces the path to justice for mass atrocity in the face of public acquiescence.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But there is a muted acquiescence in her tone—a realization that all that’s left is to keep going.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Saudi acquiescence to the agreements has been considered key to the deals.
    — Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Even these people might be wrestled into acquiescence this year if enough of your co-workers needle them.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 May 2021
  • An acquiescence by the Taliban to an extension will only take things back to square one.
    — Adam Weinstein, Time, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Which is why the most likely ultimate outcome, by far, is acquiescence.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • What else of the commons might be eroded with our unwilling but compelled acquiescence?
    — Emily Raboteau, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2020
  • These nuns will also act as silent servants, ferrying the men’s food from kitchen to table with cheerful acquiescence.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • More like uninformed acquiescence, when the forms run to a median of 27 pages.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
  • Saša and Filip play out the last gasp of their relationship with the acquiescence signature of a love gone sepia.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
  • For a moment, their clash is a near-embrace, one that stalemates in Monk’s tentative acquiescence.
    — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In many countries immigration rose with the approval, or at least the acquiescence, of liberal left and broad right alike.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Small states have risen to power on first-mover advantages, often with the acquiescence or benign neglect of larger states.
    — Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Such acquiescence was the best possible public response from the Kremlin’s point of view.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2022
  • That leaves is with the third and most likely scenario -- acquiescence to Iran getting to the threshold of a nuclear weapon.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, even in sleep Cecily can’t fully shed the acquiescence she’s been taught to accept as natural.
    — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Image At the same time, beneath that wave of acquiescence is a current of fear in Washington.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • His border wall, which was to be built with the Mexican's government's money and acquiescence, seems stuck in the mud.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • The most disturbing thing about it is the silence, the acquiescence, the normalization.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • All the coordination in the world couldn't have forced Biden to withdraw without his acquiescence.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The populists want either to reopen talks on the ESM or to gain something in return for acquiescence.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019

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