How to Use annual in a Sentence

annual

1 of 2 adjective

• We had more snow this year than the average annual amount.
• The company's earnings for last year are published in the annual report.
• The annual meeting is in July.
• The company charges an annual fee of $45.
• Nestled in the Berkshires, Lenox is the place to be when the leaves begin their annual shift.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2023
• After the first year, the annual 5,000-point bonus helps offset some of the cost of the annual fee.
  — Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 6 Oct. 2023
• So to me, people who are willing to drive $2 trillion annual deficits are the agents of chaos.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The first weeks in July are when trollers catch the most king salmon in a season and earn a big chunk of their annual paychecks.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• Footage of the film was one highlights of the annual convention of exhibitors.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• In the second half of last year, prices grew just 2% at an annual rate, matching the Fed's target.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
• In the second half of last year, prices grew just 2% at an annual rate, matching the Fed’s target.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
• The annual year-end charts were launched back in the 1940s, and have become a staple of the magazine and website since.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
• With the first option, the jackpot amount is spread out over 30 years as an annual payment.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• The annual event has honored more than 500 women in Greater Cincinnati.
  — Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 20 June 2023
• The season for Scholastic Book Fairs has kicked off, a time when students shop for books at annual pop-up fairs in their own hallways.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• The whiskey returned the following year as an annual limited-release, and is now back for a third run.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
• Emily helped Justin launch Carnival of Love, though the annual event was canceled in 2022 due to the pandemic.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
• But awards season obsessives still look to the annual boozy affair for portents of what may (or may not) be ahead at the Oscars.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• That’s up considerably from February’s 3.2% rate and marks the highest annual gain in the past six months.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• South Korea’s annual meat intake per person exceeded that of rice for the first time in 2022.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The clan emerged this month as the world’s third wealthiest in Bloomberg’s annual ranking of family fortunes.
  — Tara Patel, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
• The annual drag show and party in Spenard is debuting a new format.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
• The two-part series premiere will feature the queens showing off their stuff in the annual talent show, which has become a mainstay on the series.
  — Variety, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• Congress has twice passed stopgap funding bills to stave off a shutdown, but has yet to pass an annual spending package in full.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
• Mariah Carey impressed in a winter white look for her annual trip to Aspen, Colorado.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• Some taxpayers may get a break next year on their taxes thanks to the annual inflation adjustment of tax brackets set by the IRS.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
• In fact, his oversized business card resembles a baseball card, with a photo of him holding a baseball glove on the front and his annual sales numbers on the back.
  — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Pechanga’s Round Bar will host this annual standing-room-only party with live DJ and midnight balloon drop.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The results would mark a nearly half-percentage-point decline from the annual increase shown the previous month.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the economy just kept growing — expanding at an annual rate of 2% or more for six straight quarters.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024

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annual

2 of 2 noun

• We planted some annuals in front of the house.
• Some plants need more space to spread out and other plants, such as herbs and annuals, can do just fine in small planters.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
• The cover these annuals provide is so thick that deer will often bed right in the plot.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2020
• These annuals are all easy to grow from seed and can be sown directly in the garden.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2023
• Brown for perennials and trees and shrubs; green for annuals and row crops.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• Had the 1st annual Dave Nichol health check for our football staff today.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The annual requires little to no care and will bloom well into fall.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• That's because this is the time of the year when all the local greenhouses are filled with the summer blooming annuals.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
• The 76th annual Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
• Enjoy them as annuals or dig up the tubers before winter and store them in a cool, dark place to plant again next year.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2023
• That leaves you with the annuals packaged with your hanging baskets.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Green mulches are for annuals and brown mulches are for everything else.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2018
• These small, compact annuals provide sporadic color in the winter months and then form a carpet of blooms in the spring.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2024
• Where Good King Henry does not grow as a perennial, it can be grown as an annual.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 10 Apr. 2023
• Second, while the soil remains loose in the days and weeks after planting, cover the area with a large plastic plant tray that annuals are sold in.
  — Nancy Brachey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Garden centers would be thrilled to sell summer annuals this time of year.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
• Gardeners in Zones 2-7 can plant the tubers in early spring and treat them as annuals or dig them up and store them for winter.
  — Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 22 Apr. 2023
• The rule is simple: use a green mulch, i.e. grass clippings or straw, on annuals and brown mulches such as last fall's leaves on perennials, and around trees and shrubs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2018
• The containers are in full sun, with sun-loving annuals on my back patio.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
• The give and take between annuals and perennials are annuals will bloom all summer long, then die at the end of the season.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 June 2023
• Change out the pot with fall annuals, mums, grasses and other cool-season flowers.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
• But the company will be shipping a few of the new selections to greenhouses, mostly in the annuals area.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
• The tubers are grown as annuals in the Upper and Middle South but will return yearly in frost-free gardens.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• Ziegler has a few favorite annuals that have proven reliable and that last long in a vase with minimal messy pollen drop.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2023
• First, remove any plants that are well past their prime, usually the spring blooming annuals.
  — Karen Dardick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
• Plant single species or mixes of warm-season annuals about one inch deep.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
• In fact, many cold-region gardeners opt to just grow dahlias as annuals, buying new plants each year.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
• In a perfect-world scenario, testing would start during high school at their annuals, along with PAP smear.
  — Kim Brooks, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2018
• First of all, consider the fact that vegetables are annuals.
  — Maureen Gilmer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• Some herbs may benefit from planting after the last frost date in spring or growing as annuals during the cooler months.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024