Account-for Definition

Account-for Sentence Examples

• That would account for the specks swirling too, wouldn't it?

• But the most remarkable and daring application of the theory was to account for the phenomena of organic life, especially in animals and man.

• In attempting to account for the distribution of existing vegetation we must take into account palaeontological evidence.

• Others again, like Michaelis and Rosenmiiller, have supposed that the name Cush was applied to tracts of country both in Arabia and in Africa, but the defective condition of the ancient knowledge of countries and peoples, as also the probability of early migrations of "Cushite" tribes (carrying with them their name), will account for the main facts.

• It would be impossible to add a note to Haydn's trio; the only question is how to account for the superfluity of much of the string parts and how to make the trios effective in performance.