Sample Sentences for
annex
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annex as in:  annexed the community

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The county annexed the rural community where we live.
annexed = took territory to make it part of a larger territory
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    Hitler annexed Lithuania.
    annexed = took (a territory to make it part of a larger territory)
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    They argue about what we ought to annex. The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal-areas of France, and a slice of Russia.  (source)
    annex = take
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    "He's already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia," said Uncle Abraham.  (source)
    annexed = taken territory to make it part of a larger territory
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    I may as well tell you, if you don't know it already, that as a young lieutenant in the Japanese marines, Nobu had been severely injured in a bombing outside Seoul in 1910, at the time Korea was being annexed to Japan.  (source)
    annexed = taken and attached
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    Sam Houston was elected president, and a struggle began for annexation by the United States, an idea resisted by antislavery forces in the U.S. Congress.  (source)
    annexation = the process of taking territory
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Real peace thereno annexations and no reparations, as they say.†  (source)
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    This 'dining hall' where I now sit, however, is a modern annexe built to adjoin the main building — a long, fiat room characterized by rows of large windows on either side.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use annex.
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    Like they're annexing us or doing us some kind of favor.†  (source)
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    After the detective left, Lucien roamed around the hospital to familiarize himself with the maze of corridors and annexes and split-levels.†  (source)
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    I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd the extent I gave to its meaning.†  (source)
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    When, a few years later, the Emperor annexed the land, the Eritreans at once began a guerrilla war for their liberation.  (source)
    annexed = took territory
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    Gladstone explained that this was no longer in the interest of humanity and that a forcible annexation of Hyperion-under the guise of defending the Web itself-would allow more progressive AI coalitions in the Core to gain power.†  (source)
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    Of this work of imagination poor Tess and her parents were naturally in ignorance—much to their discomfiture; indeed, the very possibility of such annexations was unknown to them; who supposed that, though to be well-favoured might be the gift of fortune, a family name came by nature.†  (source)
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annex as in:  annex of the main building

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The YMCA added an annex where younger children can play.
annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    Their display is in the annex to the main convention hall.
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    The door to the right of the landing leads to the "Secret Annex" at the back of the house.  (source)
    Annex = separate building space associated with a main building
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    The Annex was very ordinary, its door unremarkable.  (source)
    Annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    From there, we left the Franks' living area, but we were still in the museum: A long narrow hallway showed pictures of each of the annex's eight residents and described how and where and when they died.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    Ossuary annexes were a cheap ecclesiastic fix to an awkward dilemma.  (source)
    annexes = spaces associated with primary spaces
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    Bottle fillers must use the bathroom in the annex.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    There are two steps between the annex and the main house,  (source)
    annex = an addition added to a main building
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    She's waiting in the annex.  (source)
    Annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    The Chapter House was a kind of satellite structure—a freestanding annex at the end of the long hallway to ensure the privacy of the Parliament proceedings housed there.  (source)
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    Monday morning, I was called out of English class to the library annex.  (source)
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    The lights in the annex were controlled from some central point.  (source)
    annex = an addition added to a main building
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    I knew nothing about kimono except how to wear them, so I was given the task of spending my days in the basement of the workshop annex, tending to the vats of dye as they boiled.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    MUSHTAMAL: a small garden annex or garden courtyard.†  (source)
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