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How to use annex in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Annex means an addition, an extension. Example: “The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.”

Examples of annex by meaning

verbTo add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

  • The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
  • In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee

verbTo attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.

  • to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt
  • Annexed to my feeling of guilt was a sense of having let my familiy down.

verbTo take something without permission (informal).

  • I returned to resume my place but my assistant had already annexed my chair.

More sentences with annex

  • It is said that China attacked and annexed Kucha because of the importance of Kumarajiva.2018, Benoy K Behl, “Preface and Acknowledgements”, in Buddhism: The Path of Compassion, Publications Division, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Kucha
  • The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut.2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland. From the entry popper
  • In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex.2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole. From the entry fishly
  • Not long afterward Tannu Tuva was annexed to form part of the Soviet territory.1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Tannu Tuva
  • The Japs will annex this bit of the world.2021, Bronwyn Davies, New Lives in an Old Land, page 66. From the entry goodnight nurse
  • Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry parching
  • The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle.1913 [1856], Robert Caldwell, edited by J.L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian, or, South-Indian…. From the entry preterite
  • Only if Bosnia-Herzegovina were fully annexed to the empire would it be possible eventually to incorporate it into the structure of a reformed trialist monarchy.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 84. From the entry trialist
  • European intervention in the social sphere—and annexed questions such as why, to what extent and in what way—has long been a vexata quaestio.2010, Samantha Velluti, New Governance and the European Employment Strategy. From the entry vexata quaestio
  • A year ago the Russians had annexed Manchuria’s east coast and the strategic port of Hai-shen-wei, renaming it Vladivostok — ‘eastern possession’.1998, Robert Carter, “Book IV”, in Barbarians, Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 227. From the entry Manchuria
  • Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.2012 August 18, “Ripping yarns: A revived spat between Japan and South Korea unsettles the United States”, in The Economist, archived from…. From the entry tin ear
  • In more Bookchinist terms, will humans annex Mars to second nature, or will the species foster a third nature that transcends the legacy of human social nature on Earth?2005, Rob Kitchin, James Kneale, editors, Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry Bookchinist
  • India is determined to retain possession of Kashmir (the cause of ineradicable antagonism between her and Pakistan) and to annex the Portuguese territory (territory, not colony) of Goa.1956 September 30, F. A. Voight, “Soviet Colonialism”, in Soviet Total War: “Historic Mission” of Violence and Deceit (85th Congress, 1st…. From the entry subimperialism
  • The back and side of the hospital, the long barracks of the annex and the wall at the bottom enclosed a waste place of ochreish clay.1920, May Sinclair, The Romantic. From the entry ochreish

Meaning of annex

  1. noun An addition, an extension.
  2. noun An appendix to a book or document.
  3. noun An addition or extension to a building.

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Questions about annex in a sentence

How do you use annex in a sentence?
Annex is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.”
What is a short sentence with annex?
“Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores.”
What does annex mean?
Annex means an addition, an extension.

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