How to Use annals in a Sentence

annals

plural noun

• But then came the fight for speaker, rare in the annals of Congress.
  — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• But in the annals of history, picks up and down the draft board seize the glory.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2021
• In the annals of bad ballot design, one state — and one city — stands above them all.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• There’s a legend in the annals of tennis that’s nearly too crazy to be true.
  — Zach Baylin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• In the annals of colonial exploitation, few episodes were as brazen as the pillage of Benin.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• Her wise pick of Blanche of Castile, the mother of Saint Louis, would later be proved in the annals of history.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• The fight is considered one of the best in the annals of San Antonio boxing.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Sep. 2021
• The effects of these shifts in the annals of achievement will have a long-term effect on the game’s history.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Beat the lowly Houston Texans next weekend, and the Cards will match their 1974 brethren for the hottest start in club annals.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
• The ship’s story is one of the most illustrious in the annals of exploration.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Peacock is ready to leave Rutherford Falls in the annals of history.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• In the annals of baseball history, the Browns are barely a footnote.
  — Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• It’s as if the annals of art history fed directly into the Wing.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• Unwell women emerged from the annals of medicine, like so many Russian nesting dolls.
  — Elinor Cleghorn, WSJ, 12 June 2021
• That kind of mass support for a single candidate opened a new chapter in the annals of athlete protests.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the annals of big-budget rescue jobs, Superman II is high on the list of success stories.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2021
• But the off-putting image and the bad press surrounding it eventually got lost in the annals of the internet.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• In the annals of soul-crushing moments, Tulane’s double-overtime defeat at Tulsa was at or near the top of the list.
  — G Smith, NOLA.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• That's a long time in the storied annals of baseball's most successful franchise.
  — Mike Fitzpatrick, ajc, 23 Oct. 2022
• Seventy years after the bombing, the Moores’ story is lesser known in the annals of the civil rights movement.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• One name that will get forgotten in the annals of Wisconsin sports: Bob Pettit.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2021
• Much of the land burned was remote wilderness and the East Fork fire did not hold a match to the raging West Coast fires that seared their way into the annals of wildfire history.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2021
• Tampa Bay dug out of a 17-point hole in Sunday's win over the Chargers – the first time in league annals that one team in each of a season's first four weeks has overcome a 16-point deficit and won.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
• By 1979, Bowden had Florida State positioned for one of the great runs in the annals of college football.
  — Steve Reed, ajc, 9 Aug. 2021
• This show unearths treasures that have been overlooked in the annals of art history—and offers them online for all to see.
  — Dan Duray, ELLE Decor, 26 Feb. 2021
• Even before his downfall, his career was one of the more turbulent in the annals of neuroscience.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2022
• In the annals of dance, only one has been truly forbidden, and not by ordinance.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• If this were simply about the annals of history, Clemens would go down as perhaps the greatest pitcher in the last century.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
• The sitcom wife has largely been relegated to the sidelines in the annals of TV history.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• That was the great footprint in the annals of history in 2017 when the keto nutritional plan was initiated.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024