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How to use chronicle in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, verb

Chronicle means a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time. Example: “The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.”

Examples of chronicle by meaning

verbTo record in or as in a chronicle.

  • Her most recent book, called “How to Be a Woman Online,” chronicles abuses she and other women face from trolls and other malign actors on the internet.2022 May 18, Steven Lee Myers, “A Panel to Combat Disinformation Becomes a Victim of It”, in The New York Times
  • The stars also worked on a Disney+ docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of the club, who currently play in the National League, which was being filmed when the King and Queen Consort visited.2022 December 9, “Wrexham: King and Queen Consort meet Hollywood royalty”, in BBC News

More sentences with chronicle

  • The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.From the entry archivist
  • Stewart’s novel “Storm” — chronicling the 12-day life of a fictional cyclone — was published.2021 November 16, Omar El Akkad, “Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ecofiction
  • Military campaigns against the Chuds are mentioned in the chronicles from the 11th century.2015, Anti Selart, Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century, BRILL, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry chud
  • Randy Shilts, author of And the band Played On, chronicled Darrow's investigation.2009, Teri Shors, Understanding viruses, illustrated edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 443. From the entry patient zero
  • During low points the chronicle fragmentizes as the continuity of enthusiasm becomes disrupted.2006, Josh Chetwynd, Brian Belton, British Baseball and the West Ham Club, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry fragmentize
  • More reliable chronicles, however, have recorded his trip overland from Hangchow to Kuei-chou.1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming…. From the entry Hangchow
  • Not true what chronicles is bringing his portemanteau priamed full potatowards.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC…. From the entry portemanteau
  • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry farraginous
  • Reflecting on his long career chronicling scientists, J.2012, Marjorie Senechal, I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science. From the entry continental
  • The organization of deep time was the special mission of geology, and it set about chronicling rocks into a temporal stratigraphy.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, “Eiszeit and Zeitgeist”, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry deep time
  • The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry recent
  • In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.2009, Aaron Marcus, “Advanced Interaction Modalities with Mobile Digital Content”, in Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala…. From the entry gyaru-moji
  • As early as the time of the "Warring Kingdoms" (fourth century B.C.), if not before, the chronicles mention nomad invasions.2004, Gerard Chaliand, translated by A.M. Berrett, Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube, Transaction Publishers, translation of…. From the entry chin
  • After the March issue, Tina Brown will scrap the magazine's “Vanities” photo section, which chronicles the powerful at play.1991 February 25, Jeannete Walls, “Intelligencer”, in New York Magazine, volume 24, number 8, page 18. From the entry bonfire of the vanities
  • "Sunday Music," a chronicle of a disco pickup and morning after that skillfully parallels Eric's recollections of a recent ex-lover.1986 February 15, John Kyper, “Tangled Sheets and Other Stories [review]”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page B4. From the entry pickup
  • If two chronicles seemed contradictory, instead of trying to choose between them, a rationalization (epicycle) was devised to cover both.1978, The Journal of the Siam Society, volumes 66-67, page 152. From the entry epicycle
  • “Everybody is lonely because you’re meant to be alone” is one of the many lamentable summings-up in this distressing chronicle of poor Elvira’s final days.2013 May 9, Christopher Arnott, “Dark Side of the Moon”, in New Haven Advocate, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Courant Company, LLC, page…. From the entry summing-up
  • Mikerra had been offered a seven-figure book deal for a tell-all chronicling her relationship with Senator McCaffrey, his death, and the project's ultimate demise.2009, Kennedy Shaw, Tour of Duty, page 308. From the entry tell-all
  • There, in a setting suspiciously similar to Lake Wobegon, I’ve chronicled the feats of the incomparable John Gagliardi, head coach at Division III powerhouse St.2009, Austin Murphy, Saturday Rules: Why College Football Outpasses, Outclasses, and Flat-Out Surpasses the NFL, page 5. From the entry Lake Wobegon
  • Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah already existed in their individual Hebrew Vorlages, and 1 Esdras existed, probably in Hebrew, as a derivative from them.1989, Simon John De Vries, 1 and 2 Chronicles, page 9. From the entry vorlage
  • Likewise, entries in chronicles and annals are not placed in this study unless they indicate that charterial material was probably the source for that information.1977, Steven Fanning, A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006–1047 (Transactions of the American…. From the entry charterial
  • Thus The Tournament was called "lapidary" in its style (though plain in its dialogue and free of "eftsoonery"), a kaleidoscope rather than a chronicle.1975, “VANSITTART, PETER”, in John Wakeman, editor, World Authors 1950–1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors, New York…. From the entry eftsoonery
  • It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors.1955 December 26, “Old Play in Manhattan”, in Time. From the entry fits and starts
  • It will chronicle milestones from Adi Kabi Sarala Das to Haladhar Nag, and literary giants like Upendra Bhanja, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Manoj Das, and Jayanta Mahapatra.2025 November 23, Sandip Mishra, “World-class Odia Asmita Bhavan to come up in city”, in MSN. From the entry Odisha
  • Crammed like a biblical ark with creaturely wonders, “The Birds of America” conveys a sense of summation, although its chronicle of American bird life is far from complete.2024 May 8, Danny Heitman, “Audubon’s exquisite bird paintings owe a debt to classical European art”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry creaturely
  • No flipness is intended; one man profiled in the program, which chronicles the rehabilitation of several American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq, makes a similar observation himself.2007 June 6, Neil Genzlinger, “The Wounded Return Home, and Another Battle Begins”, in New York Times. From the entry flipness
  • Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.2000, Malcolm Hislop, Medieval Masons. From the entry masoncraft
  • And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311. From the entry ecstatical
  • Claus's wonderful novel is a chronicle of war in a corner of one small country and a painstaking portrait of the artist as an obnoxious young man.1990 July 1, Suzanne Ruta, “The Artist Is a Pest”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Claus
  • This is shown by the fact that Chinese chronicles of those years refer to the areas east of Baltistan as Tibet; and Ladakh is what exists "east of Baltistan".1981, Siddiq Wahid, Ladakh: Between Earth and Sky, Lausanne: Edita, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry Tibetanisation
  • Calverley's test of Pickwickian scholarship has been followed by similar tests with which students of the Holmesian chronicles may put their knowledge of their hero's exploits to the proof.1960, George Frederick McCleary, On detective fiction and other things, page 60. From the entry pickwickian
  • It is interesting that some fairy-tale personages, such as the Baba-Iaga, are mentioned in the chronicle—evidence of the popularity of fairy tales in the Kievan period.1948, George Vernadsky, “Folklore”, in Kievan Russia (A History of Russia; 2), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, chapter IX…. From the entry Baba-Iaga
  • By no scrutiny and elaborate chronicle of the daily life and households of the Coniston folk does the author create the vital atmosphere of reality that inspires the story.1906 July 15, “Winston Churchill’s New Novel [Coniston]”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 26, number 300, Kansas City, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry comprehendedly
  • The saint king’s biographies, compiled in the court, and the Hungarian royal chronicle, compiled in different segments at different times, could both be classified as a form of Speculum literature.1993, Kornél Szovák, “The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas)”, in Anne Duggan…. From the entry speculum literature

Meaning of chronicle

  1. noun A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
  2. verb To record in or as in a chronicle.

Full definition of chronicle

Questions about chronicle in a sentence

How do you use chronicle in a sentence?
Chronicle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.”
What is a short sentence with chronicle?
“Reflecting on his long career chronicling scientists, J.”
What does chronicle mean?
Chronicle means a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

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