How to Use archive in a Sentence

archive

1 of 2 noun
  • This is the archive of the world.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The coat is in an archive box next to us.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2026
  • Mance pulled the heels from their archive.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Take a look through our archive in the gallery above.
    — Keely Brown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But Brooks’s own e-mails were not kept in that archive.
    — Nick Davies, Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
  • What is the nature of an archive?
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Biden purchased the bracelet but sent the vase to the archives.
    — Matthew Lee The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • India holds one of the world’s largest film archives.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At its heart, though, this is an archive of friendship.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Each poll becomes part of the archive.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Take a look back at our gallery of the snowstorm from our archives.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In the meantime, hooray for the archive!
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Also, the archive was so strong.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • For more ideas, check out our new and improved Recipes archive.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • It was built around his archive of Dylan footage from the events.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The page is still viewable via an online archive.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Goddard’s archives were then placed on the chopping block.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Because the archive is somebody’s proof of life.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • For some subjects, that means combing an archive.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • The brand’s archives also will be on display.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The thing is, a lot of my research was done in newspaper archives.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The last piece of archive of that section shows this Nazi passport.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • At the moment, Kerekes is not ruling out the use of archive footage.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Part of her role is to organize and preserve the archive room.
    — Janay Reece, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This creates a living archive of the home that evolves alongside it.
    — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That kind of knowledge rarely appears in the archive with a label tied around its neck.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • What happens to the archive of the planet that lives inside them?
    — Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Many of us grew up going to the parks and have archives of fading photos to prove it.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Atwood has stacks of research for her novels in these archives.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The guide is still needed, even if the archive has been digitized.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

archive

2 of 2 verb
  • She archived her e-mail messages in a folder on her hard drive.
  • The organization was devoted to cataloging and archiving printed materials on the labor movement.
  • The tape is then archived in case it is needed down the road.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • All of her Christmas recipes are archived on her blog, as well.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Some of his tags even got archived by Google Maps before they were wiped away.
    — Hazlitt, 6 July 2022
  • Many of the videos are archived at Fein’s YouTube channel.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Attendees wanted to archive the past but not dwell on it.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Capture too many photos, which may end up archived or deleted later.
    — Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Musk said the unused accounts would be archived but did not provide details about how that would work.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • If political ads sneak through, then they won’t be archived anywhere.
    — Jeremy B. Merrill, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Take any necessary action and then archive the item.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • Every joke is public, and every opinion is archived.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Last spring, the album was archived in the Library of Congress.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This means Chappelle is at least planning to archive and store the footage, if not release it.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Preprints are archived in a way that they can be referenced and will always be available online.
    — Theodora Bloom, STAT, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Abitbol shares her story in the film and unveils archive that have never seen before.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Many of the records kept by the Brown family are now archived by the university.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • All arguments are streamed live and archived on The Ohio Channel.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Copies of sympathy cards that have already been archived are left on shelves at the library entrance for people to take.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The event will be archived and available for replay on the Company's website.
    — Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The festival live-streams the events and archives them on its website and YouTube.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • The ability to record on external media is a big plus for those who like to archive their recordings.
    — Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Some content is archived, but those records typically remain in public view.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The account mentioned in the Bee’s report seems to have removed those videos, but others have archived some of them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Apart from long term archiving applications, hard drives are largely consigned to the past.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Tattooed into its skin are the scars of old wounds; archived in the molecules of the immune system are the traces of past infections.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • With this active, your default Send button will now both send the email and archive the conversation at the same time.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Chaturbate videos are streamed live on that site and are often archived on other publicly available sites, the Post reported.
    — CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The comment also claimed that the singer archived her Solar Power cover art from her feed and changed her profile pic.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
  • When data is no longer simply archived, but transformed into experience?
    — Joseph Fowler, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

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