How to Use almanac in a Sentence

almanac

noun
  • The almanac appears to have changed with the times, though.
    Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Good to see the farmers’ almanacs are on the same page.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The Great Lakes region will have the most unique spring, the almanac says.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The Bible, to prepare them for the next world, and an almanac, to help them through this one.
    Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
  • As a child, one of my favorite days of the year was when the new almanac came out.
    Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 23 May 2018
  • The moon will be at its brightest at 6:02 a.m. ET, the almanac notes.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Somebody should write a Bay Area almanac — the swing of the seasons and the small rituals of the year.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The almanac states that the summer solstice starts at 1:51 p.m.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
  • According to the almanac, the wider the brown sections are, the milder winter will be.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Like a manual of anatomy or an almanac of the stars, it was meant to be flipped through and used.
    Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • It’s called the buck moon because male deer, or bucks, fully grow their antlers at this time of year, the almanac says.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 19 July 2024
  • The Hagerstown almanac is now the second-oldest in the country.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Wet soil holds as much as four times more heat than dry soil, according to the farmer's almanac.
    London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The upcoming winter should be wet and milder for most of the U.S., according to the almanac.
    Mike Snider, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The almanac states that the summer solstice starts at 1:51 p.m. on Thursday.
    Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 18 June 2024
  • The almanac predicts for Feb. 4-7 to have cold dry weather in Arizona.
    Andrea Ramirez, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • May's flower moon marked the first supermoon of the year, according to the almanac.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
  • Fur trappers, the almanac stated, used this time also to hunt beavers for their pelts.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The almanac shows that the fourth quarter tends to be the strongest seasonal cycle for stocks.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The almanac says the planet Mercury appears to travel backward across the sky three times a year.
    Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • The almanac states that its readers find its predictions to be accurate about 80% to 85% of the time.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • If the selling keeps up through the end of the month, the almanac suggests investors should sell stocks and wait for the inevitable further decline.
    James B. Stewart, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2016
  • All proceeds from sales of the $25 almanac will go toward volume two.
    Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The other almanac, The Farmers Almanac, is a fun read with lots of household hints and catchy phrases.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The calendar may tell us autumn has arrived, but Ziskin’s cake is the true almanac.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The almanac states that its readers find its predictions to be accurate about 80% - 85% of the time.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In fairness, the almanac is full of all kinds of information.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In the drought-facing Southwest, however, the almanac has bad news.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2020
  • While this forecast trends around this time every year, the more than 200-year-old almanac shouldn't be given too much weight on its own.
    Kendall Trammell, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But this upcoming winter could be wetter, the almanac writes.
    Mike Snider, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2024

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