How to Use anonymity in a Sentence

anonymity

noun

• She enjoyed the anonymity of life in a large city.
• They are trying to protect their child's anonymity.
• There's a certain who-cares anonymity to the cars in this econobox class.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
• The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t yet made the deal public.
  — Tom Canavan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The person briefed on the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
• The people spoke to The AP on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced.
  — Tim Booth, ajc, 7 Mar. 2023
• The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Padres have yet to announce the deal.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
• The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had not been cleared to talk to the media about the matter.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
• The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the depth and the severity of the hack was not yet clear.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024
• The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the depth and the severity of the hack are not yet clear.
  — Andres Triay, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024
• And in the unbinding candor of anonymity, all of them confess it in these books.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
• The Statesman chose not to name the father to protect his children’s anonymity.
  — Sarah Cutler and, Idaho Statesman, 18 July 2024
• The seller, who requested anonymity, bought the pair of units in an off-market deal in 2017.
  — Chris Cameron, Robb Report, 20 June 2024
• The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• The official spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
• The hatred usually hides in the cowardice of anonymity.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made yet.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• The training will take place in Fort Sill, Okla., said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg Helene Cooper Julia Jacobs Ivan Nechepurenko Stephen Castle Ivan Nechepurenko Steven Erlanger Ivan Nechepurenko Eric Schmitt Carlotta Gall Max Fisher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Yet the man insisted on anonymity, for fear of losing friends.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The person asked for anonymity because of signing an NDA.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
• The person was granted anonymity to discuss the closed door session.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 July 2024
• The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not say when the team is expected to arrive in Sicily.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
• The solution, of course, is to remove the illusion of anonymity.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• The lengthy flight duration, emotive movie plotlines, and a certain amount of anonymity is a sure-fire way to open the floodgates.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2024
• One of the women, none of whom know each other and the majority of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, was 16 at the time of the offense.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
• Some of these alter-ego accounts, like Lucky Socks, maintain a degree of anonymity.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 14 May 2024
• Note from the editor: Sources who are marked with an asterisk have had their names changed to ensure their anonymity.
  — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2023
• One legal quirk is that if the waitress were actually a cook, searing meat in the anonymity of a kitchen, she wouldn’t be allowed in the tip pool.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• For Cofer, being a podcast host helps maintain a level of anonymity.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• Lawyers say when minors are involved, courts often grant them anonymity.
  — Kara Scannell, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024