Sample Sentences forannals (auto-selected)
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To find a documented poisoning attributable to wild sweet pea, I had to go all the way back to the nineteenth-century annals of Arctic exploration. (source)annals = historical records
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The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness. (source)
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The shelves held hide-bound charts and sea annals.† (source)
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I read over my notes about John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, and the toy plastic whistle that had made him famous in the annals of hacker lore.† (source)
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It is an extraordinary case from the annals of the natural sciences that my father related to me as a child.† (source)
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Militants from Saeed and Nadia's country had crossed over to Vienna the previous week, and the city had witnessed massacres in the streets, the militants shooting unarmed people and then disappearing, an afternoon of carnage unlike anything Vienna had ever seen, well, unlike anything it had seen since the fighting of the previous century, and of the centuries before that, which were of an entirely different and greater magnitude, Vienna being no stranger, in the annals of history, to war, and the militants had perhaps hoped to provoke a reaction against migrants from their own part of the world, who had been pouring into Vienna, and if that had been their hope then they had succeeded, for th† (source)
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One commentator, in London, had mentioned my painting in the same breath with the recovered Rembrandt: ...has drawn attention to more valuable works still missing, most particularly Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654, unique in the annals of art and therefore priceless ... I reset the computer for the third or fourth time and shut it down, and then, a bit stiffly, climbed in bed and turned out the light.† (source)
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Translator's Note: For details, please see Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery, "A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses," Annals of Mathematics, 152 (2000), 881-901.† (source)
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Yet, though before all was won the Battle of Five Armies was fought, and Thorin was slain, and many deeds of renown were done, the matter would scarcely have concerned later history, or earned more than a note in the long annals of the Third Age, but for an 'accident' by the way.† (source)
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DEC. 17—Elizabeth, long fearful because of its proximity to Newark Airport, gained a permanent listing in the annals of aviation tragedy at 3:09 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a two-engined non-scheduled airliner plummeted in flames into the east bank of the Elizabeth River, only seven minutes after its takeoff.† (source)
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There were a few rose-bushes, however, and a number of apple-trees, probably the descendants of those planted by the Reverend Mr. Blackstone, the first settler of the peninsula; that half mythological personage who rides through our early annals, seated on the back of a bull.† (source)
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What else will mark me, besides the never-to-be-known annals of the rest?† (source)
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Such lapses of memory were not uncommon in medical annals, he knew.† (source)
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His patient Dr. Musoke has himself become a celebrity, in the annals of disease.† (source)
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They are mentioned in the annals, though not as often as I would have thought.† (source)
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Looking back, he saw this as a typical event in the annals of such allegations.† (source)
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