How to Use litany in a Sentence

litany

noun
  • The team blamed its losses on a litany of injuries.
  • He has a litany of grievances against his former employer.
  • What to know: The Saints enter Week 6 with a litany of injuries.
    Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But smartly, the film doesn’t dwell on the entire litany of Maurice’s scams.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • In a litany of sins, Djokovic’s selfishness is supreme.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Rust remains in the headlines, but mostly for the litany of lawsuits in progress.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This piece is far more than just a litany of bizarre behavior.
    Longreads, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Armed with a changeup that kept hitters off balance, Aupont got ahead in the count with a litany of first-pitch strikes.
    Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • The dizzying pacing, the litany of hapless jokes, the all-out slapstick and the familiar shtick.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • His wife, Cheryl Traud, ticked off a litany of reasons to vote for the Republican.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • With the window present, Mohajir expressed his thoughts on a litany of items.
    Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The effect is not the numbing of a litany but of an incantatory drone, a colony of bees.
    Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • As was the case two years ago, the 2022 midterm elections have sparked a litany of baseless accusations of fraud.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The 'growth at any cost' attitude and litany of Mega deals have all but disappeared.
    Mark Flickinger, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Four months earlier, the prison’s warden, Ray J. Garcia, was charged with a litany of crimes.
    Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Roosevelt listens to his litany of horrors, then changes the subject.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Her litany of woes traces the limits of science and the deficiencies of healthcare.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Elsewhere in the video, there are cameos from a litany of famous — and infamous — New Yorkers.
    Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But neither Roy’s stern words nor his itemized litany of how much the shindig is costing him manage to budge her.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In the same report, the officer listed a litany of complaints that had been filed in recent months.
    Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • Putin has a litany of resentments and reasons for his actions.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The quick return of power and low number of fatalities from Idalia may be added to that litany.
    Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Structural problems are just the latest in a long litany of problems affecting the small, frigate-sized ships.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
  • While most movies would be happy enough with all of those achievements, Barbie has added even more to its litany of honors.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That phrase was uttered at least five separate times last season as the Mets ace dealt with a litany of injuries.
    Andrew Tredinnick, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But Anosov thought there might be a whole litany of dynamical systems that act this way.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Horn has only played in 22 of the 51 games in which he’s been eligible to appear over the past three seasons due to a litany of injuries.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Drive, Cohen instructed the man, who was still going at it on the phone, howling his litany of grievances.
    Nicole Krauss, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • To the litany of starting pitching absences that left their October rotation thin and unsettled.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • As Axios reported last week, Trump is laying the groundwork to deny the results of the election, again spreading a litany of baseless fraud claims in anticipation of his potential defeat.
    Zachary Basu, Axios, 6 Oct. 2024

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