How to Use annex in a Sentence

annex

1 of 2 verb
  • The government planned to annex the islands.
  • The United States annexed Texas in 1845.
  • That doesn't mean the city can't annex land that's not in the water service area.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The West Bank will not be annexed by Israel.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • If possible, book a suite in the heritage annex.
    — Rumit Mehta, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2026
  • But why is Trump so hell-bent on annexing Greenland in the first place?
    — Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
  • States cannot annex the moon, or Mars, or any celestial object.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Some members had argued that annexing the site would give the city greater oversight of the project.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Two of the five parcels lie in unincorporated land that will be annexed by the city.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2019
  • The vote to be taken Tuesday would only annex the land to the city and rezone it.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The issue in Mobile is whether to annex areas west of the city limits.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2021
  • China claims the island as part of its territory and hasn’t ruled out the use of force to annex it.
    — Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014.
    — Carlie Procell, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There was now no real need to annex the West Bank and its half million settlers.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The two firms hope to have the restaurant and land annexed into Morrison.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
  • It was argued this required a treaty, but Congress chose to annex Texas by a law.
    — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Under the current deal, the city and parish split the 2-cent sales tax on any land annexed into the city limits.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • That represents a key formal step toward allowing the city to annex the land and build on it.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 5 June 2018
  • If the vote goes their way, the residents hope to annex land that has been leased for the solar facility.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • These are precisely the areas that the far right hopes to settle and even annex to Israel.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The valley of tears has been annexed as a bastion of privileged white, male suffering.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Those agreements stated that if the owners violated their terms, the city could annex their land.
    — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The land near Micron would need to be annexed by Boise to connect to its sewer system.
    — Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Plans for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank have already been floated.
    — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The agreement requires Israel to halt its plan to annex parts in the West Bank.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • As Russia sets the stage to annex its Ukrainian conquests, there appears to be no end in sight.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Once those land owners agreed to be annexed into Lebanon, there was nothing area plan officials could do.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The goal here would be to make Putin and his backers feel enough pain to force them to abandon their intent to annex Ukraine.
    — Mick Mulroy, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2022

annex

2 of 2 noun
  • We store our old files in the annex.
  • The addition will be used as an annex to the library.
  • Campers can add a drop-down annex that forms a second room on the ground.
    — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The annex castle is one of the school buildings that have yet to be restored.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
  • For one, it was held in person at in a meeting room in the courthouse annex.
    — oregonlive, 2 May 2020
  • None of them wants to see Russia annex parts of their beloved homeland.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Details about why the county didn’t pay the annex electric bill last year.
    — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 11 June 2018
  • Between the cracks in the stones that make up the annex, glass had been stuffed to keep out the rats, the researchers said.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Comoy insisted the annex not try to mimic the rest of the house.
    — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The latter group proposed its own reforms in an annex to the report.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The annex across the street became a convenient place for the couple to work.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, if there are only two of you, then use the annex for a kitchen, living room, or changing room.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Today the camp is split into eight sections and a foreign annex.
    — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • School district officials planned to raze the old annex long ago, but never did.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The annex is where Anne Frank wrote her world-famous diary.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • But even releasing a classified annex goes against what the law says.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • The collection quickly grew, and plans were put in motion to build an annex next door to house them all.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • His church already has started seedlings of green peppers and Swiss chard in his church’s annex.
    — Adelle M. Banks, Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Parnell announced that reporter workspaces would be moved to an outside annex.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The United Airlines gates might as well have been an annex to the players lounge.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • As the pad’s best vantage point, the annex also features an outlook and balcony.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
  • The strains on the medical system are apparent in the annex, too.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Separate from the main house is a kids’ annex with a bunk room for eight, nanny’s bedroom, living room and kitchen.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Hays arranged a covert meeting with Fitzwater in the courthouse annex.
    — Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Still another is the massive project to build a new annex to the Capitol itself.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Still another is the massive project to build a new annex to the Capitol itself.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
  • His first winning Daytona 500 car sits in an annex off his living room.
    — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The staircase to the annex was accessed from the parking lot, but they were interrupted.
    — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The annex is attached to the state’s historic Capitol building.
    — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 14 June 2018
  • Three years ago the Met drove its finances onto the rocks by leasing the Breuer building as an annex.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020

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