Example sentences for: annals

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

  • Three major museums illustrate Edinburgh’s fascinating history, with one holding a collection revealing the annals of Scotland’s past and the lives of her most illustrious sons and daughters.

  • Annals of the Former World began in the '70s with a piece for The New Yorker 's "Talk of the Town" on road cuts around New York City, but McPhee knew he was onto something bigger.

  • There might be no more irrationally terrifying shot in the annals of film than the one in which the camera hurtles behind Heather--a hazy white streak in the center of the screen--amid crackling sounds as she throws a look into the trees and shrieks: "What is that?

  • The Annals of Internal Medicine , organ of the American College of Physicians, abandoned the possessive form totally in 1988, protesting that eponyms are inappropriate when a directly descriptive synonym is available.

  • 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.


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