Example sentences for: annexed

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

  • With a history longer than Berlin’s, Spandau, northwest of Berlin, still remains fiercely independent-minded, and was the most reluctant of the townships to be annexed by the metropolis in 1920.

  • McLaren maintains that because Texas was illegally annexed, Texans are not U.S. citizens, have no obligation to obey federal laws, and are owed war reparations by the federal government.

  • The folkloric use of bolillo occurs when it is derogatorily applied to Anglo Americans, supposedly because they are as white as bread, and because the Americans invaded and annexed Mexican territory, the Southwest.

  • In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.

  • McLaren, a vociferous opponent of all taxation, declared in 1995 his unique finding that the United States has never legally annexed Texas.


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