Sentence examples for accepted thing from inspiring English sources

"Going to school and trying to do good is not the accepted thing a lot of the time.

It has a view on that one, that gay marriage is a constitutionally accepted thing in South Africa.

"It was a kind of accepted thing that you had to tell them originally, no guns," McElroy said.

The accepted thing to say of Mrs. Post is that she is "qualified" by birth and position to be an authority on social usage.

The accepted thing was to criticize both sides equally, to balance each column saying mean things about Republicans with another attacking Democrats, to insist that any signs of a dysfunctional political system rested on equal degrees of intransigence on both sides.

"If you have to leave work early because you're going to see your child's nativity play, that's quite an accepted thing", says Herlots. "If you're having to leave work early because your elderly mother with dementia has just gone wandering, it's not so easy to talk about".

"Before I went to jail, I accepted things I won't accept anymore," he said.

"I've always accepted things as they were.

Even if your apology was accepted, things can remain tense and awkward between you and the person you've wronged.

"It was such a totally natural, easy, accepting thing to do.

When you fall into that cycle, he says, "you start to accept things that you wouldn't usually find acceptable.