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Example sentences for: annexed

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He then annexed about 2,330 sq km (900 sq miles) of land due south of Calcutta to provide rents for the British settlement and to guarantee himself an income of £30,000 per year for life.
Memorable eponymous terms require memorable nominal roots and, in the English-speaking world, people's names are becoming more diverse and interesting as more cultures are demographically and linguistically annexed.
He would be allowed to press in court his claim that the Republic of Texas had been illegally annexed by the United States in 1845.
The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.
The Christian provinces gradually captured and annexed former bastions of Moorish rule: Ferdinand III conquered Murcia for Castile in 1242; Denia and Játiva fell to James the Conqueror of Aragon in 1244, though it was not until 1265 that he secured Cartagena.