Example sentences for: annals

How can you use “annals” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They tend to share the common language of doctors everywhere and so can make the unfamiliar reassuringly accessible, while still conveying a revealing sense of their national Zeitgeist . I recently picked up the Annals of Saudi Medicine , for example, and discovered, to my surprise, the telling obsessions of a modernized country: ulcers, a growing epidemic of obesity, smoking, heart disease, child abuse.

  • Consider the natives of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, who earned their place in military annals by subduing and then eating the crew of a French survey ship in 1850.

  • As an important maritime center for the Roman Empire, Genoa would later be put on the map of sea-faring annals forever as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.

  • Five years later, the Taira were overthrown after being defeated in the straits between western Honshu and Kyushu, at the titanic sea battle of Dannoura — which has a place in Japanese annals comparable to Waterloo or Stalingrad.

  • Never in the annals of medicine has a viral plague been stopped by any therapy.


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