Sentence Examples

1. And sometimes she found it difficult to resist the powerful allure of acquiescence.
2. The people have been conditioned through violence and persecution into acquiescence, too scared to rock the boat.
3. I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband and wife from each other and from themselves so on nodding acquiescence to him he asked them what they had seen or done.
4. The policeman nodded acquiescence, and the man kneeling down placed his bag beside him.
5. I had previously seen something of the same constantly growing excitement in him when he had to make some request of which at the time he had thought much, such, for instance, as when he wanted a cat and I was prepared to see the collapse into the same sullen acquiescence on this occasion.