How to Use annals in a Sentence

annals

plural noun
  • In the annals of bad ballot design, one state — and one city — stands above them all.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the annals of colonial exploitation, few episodes were as brazen as the pillage of Benin.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • Unwell women emerged from the annals of medicine, like so many Russian nesting dolls.
    — Elinor Cleghorn, WSJ, 12 June 2021
  • That's a long time in the storied annals of baseball's most successful franchise.
    — Mike Fitzpatrick, ajc, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • What an entry into the annals of history.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the annals of dance, only one has been truly forbidden, and not by ordinance.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 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
  • Even before his downfall, his career was one of the more turbulent in the annals of neuroscience.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 two fall-offs likely rank among the fastest in any brief period in the annals of major senatorial races.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Jan. 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
  • No company in the annals of equity markets has ever dropped on a scale remotely that big in just five-and-a-half weeks.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But an anomaly just under the soil may cement its legacy in the annals of Chicago-area history.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2021
  • That word has a long and grim history in the annals of American right-wing propaganda.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Never in the annals of American sports have games been postponed because of a player boycott.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • In the annals of royal history, few families are as famous as the Romanovs.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 27 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the annals of big-budget rescue jobs, Superman II is high on the list of success stories.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • As far as this writer can tell, Tesla notched the biggest dollar jump in market cap, in that brief a period, in the annals of equities.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021

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