1127 examples of accommodate in sentences

The camp at Ras-el-Tin was to be evacuated in a few days' time, and all the occupants were to be transferred to Sidi Bishr Camp, now prepared to accommodate 5,000 men.

The Amorous Widow has an under-plot interwoven, to accommodate the piece to the prevailing English taste.

And did it become members of that House (in order to accommodate the nerves of the friends of the Slave Trade) to soften down their expressions, when they were speaking on that subject; and to desist from calling that murder and torture, for which a Governor, and the Attorney-General, of one of the islands could find no better name?

V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners.

I hear a rumour that the House of Commons tea-terrace will shortly be commandeered for the erection of yet another block of buildings to accommodate yet another Ministrythe Ministry of Demobilization of Temporary Departmental Hutments.

At any rate, do not ask us to accommodate our doctrines to the lessons you have been taught.

In their hours for eating, the Sioux accommodate themselves to circumstances.

And this inquiry brought out, >>> from different people, that the house was suspected to be one of those genteel wicked houses, which receive and accommodate fashionable people of both sexes.

I am not sure she could accommodate such a lady.

With these,for I readily converted them into money,I purchased a safe asylum in an obscure but decent family, whose poverty did not afford them the indulgence of a scrupulous fastidiousness or impertinent curiosity; it was enough for their straitened conscience that I had the manners and the purse of a lady, they asked no questions which might cost them a profitable boarder, the only one they could accommodate in their poor way.

Certain of our Florentines sought to accommodate matters, but failed in their attempt.

The college is large enough to accommodate a hundred students.

but I hope he will endeavor to accommodate his feelings to the interests and circumstances of his country.

We endeavored to obviate the objections that were made, in the best manner we could, and assigned reasons for our insisting on the importation, which there is no occasion to repeat, as they must occur to every gentleman in the House: a committee of the States was appointed in order to accommodate this matter, and after a great deal of difficulty, it was settled on the footing recited in the Constitution.

It may wound the delicacy of the gentleman from Guilford, (Mr. GOUDY,) but I hope he will endeavor to accommodate his feelings to the interests and circumstances of his country.

We endeavored to obviate the objections that were made, in the best manner we could, and assigned reasons for our insisting on the importation, which there is no occasion to repeat, as they must occur to every gentleman in the house: a committee of the States was appointed in order to accommodate this matter, and after a great deal of difficulty, it was settled on the footing recited in the Constitution.

In addition to this Winckelmann must have felt that a man, in order to be a Roman in Rome, in order to identify himself with the life there, and to enjoy confidential association, must necessarily profess the religion of his associates, must yield to their faith, and accommodate himself to their usages.

In every other place the traveler can better look out for himself and find something suitable to his needs; but whoever does not accommodate himself to Rome is an abomination to the man of real Roman sentiment.

They are so numerous as to accommodate amply all the children, of suitable age to attend.

Besides six old and new churches, adapted to accommodate from 10,000 to 12,000 persons, there are seventeen chapels for the various denominations of Dissenters, capable of affording sitting room for 12,000 or 15,000 more.

The latter buildings are in some cases forty or fifty in number, and each of them will accommodate ten or twelve persons....

Hence arose a compromise and a confusion, hard to accommodate with our conception of his upright and unyielding temper.

This new portion of the house was used partly to accommodate his library.

Buildings are already finished and occupied that accommodate 200 inmates, and the contractors have nearly finished part of the central group that will bring that number up to nearly 1,300.

Detached group No. 4 is designed for both men and women, and will accommodate 150.

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