How to Use chronicle in a Sentence

chronicle

1 of 2 noun
  • The video above is the chronicle of what happened in the words of Browns fans.
    John Pana, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
  • It’s time to pick up arms and chronicle the events of the Future War.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her.
    Time, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The drunk night chronicle is a glimpse of where their sound is going.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The crux of the film is the chronicle of how Frank’s loyalties and principles are put to the test.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Most of it reads like a chronicle of a mundane work trip.
    Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
  • Of course, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of the chronicles of whites and their exploits in the slave trade.
    Angela Helm, The Root, 10 May 2018
  • The list acts as a sort of chronicle of the decades worth of newsworthy things that took place during this one weird year.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Dec. 2020
  • One chronicle from the time also says the Viking king was buried in Roskilde, in Denmark, in the late 10th century.
    Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
  • This is the third film in Lifetime’s chronicle of their love story.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The rest of the 13-minute chronicles the process of shooting the video on the streets of New York, including a freestyle dance scene in a subway station.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
  • What the show chronicles instead is the concrete jungle from which an artist’s dreams arose.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Below, a brief chronicle of the women who spoke truth to power this year and rocked the status quo.
    Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Only the names and the outcomes change, which makes the movie’s chronicle of what happens this time around that much more moving.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
  • The chronicle of the Fancy’s journey is filled with horrors.
    Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Check out our chronicle of all the outlandish gadgets at CES.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The following charts chronicle how the market has changed since Feb. 12.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The book is a nuanced, highly readable chronicle of the first attempt on the summit 100 years ago.
    Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • He was well known for his books on the drug trade and chronicles of life in a state where cartels came to be seen as big business and benefactors of the poor.
    David Agren, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • But as Matthew of Edessa’s chronicle reminds us, this part of the world is no stranger to disastrous seismic events.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • There are very few icons in the chronicles of the Chinese struggle against state repression.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The film turned out to be both a vehicle for, and a chronicle of, the family’s self-therapy.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
  • It was noted even in that chronicle of the rich and famous, Vanity Fair.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 June 2022
  • Morgan Neville’s movie is more than just a chronicle of Rogers’s career.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
  • Yet the most vivid chronicle of this upheaval is not expressed in words, but in colored threads across nearly 230 feet of linen.
    National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The jumbles that unfold in the show chronicle familiar themes.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • At the next class, two months later, Masihzadeh showed the final part of her film, a chronicle of her search for the woman who claimed the money that Shokri had found.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Such writerly panache is the true saving grace of Mr Orange’s chronicle.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • The result is a chronicle that, while not overtly dull, never quite makes a reader’s pulse race.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • And experts who study and chronicle mass killings warned Tuesday that there could be more as the nation reverts to a more normal way of life.
    NBC News, 23 Mar. 2021
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chronicle

2 of 2 verb
  • She intends to chronicle the broad social changes that have occurred in this part of the country.
  • The book chronicles the events that led to the American Civil War.
  • The 2018 film chronicles the rise of the band Queen and its iconic front man.
    Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
  • Djokovic’s woes over the last two years are well-chronicled.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • The show did chronicle the times that it was shot in and some of the issues that were dealt with at those times.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The Times asked her to chronicle the visit on her iPhone.
    Scott Heller, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Many of these monuments may be in the same squares where the events chronicled by EJI took place.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2018
  • O’Hara sometimes seems to be chronicling the life of an anthill.
    Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • No place to chronicle the exploits of the beloved high school hockey teams.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
  • People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Boston’s rise as the biotech capital of the world has been well-chronicled.
    Bill Sibold, STAT, 3 June 2018
  • In all, the leaks—which are archived here—chronicle almost two years’ worth of the group’s inner workings.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • His goal is to bring back a core, an arm’s-length sample of a coral colony that chronicles decades of its lifetime.
    Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
  • It's built around a small story set in a small town and chronicling the small-time life of a small-time nobody.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
  • But now 25, Ulven has opened up her range, trying to chronicle the highs as well as the lows.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The goal was first to be fair and chronicle the events leading to the mascot change, according to the show’s playbill.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 May 2021
  • The show chronicles her life’s journey and dealing with ableism.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The film chronicles the high-stakes global mission that brought the James Webb Space Telescope to life.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, celebrity unions that go array in record-short timing are more par for the course, as chronicled in the tabloids.
    Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
  • New parents are used to chronicling the firsts of childhood: the first time a baby smiles, sits up, crawls.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Blair chronicled the romance from the beginning of the flight to baggage claim.
    Kelli Stacy, courant.com, 6 July 2018
  • The book, which chronicles the making of the film, has already shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s bestsellers chart.
    Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
  • The report chronicles the binge day by day, and can be read in its entirety here.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2014
  • Mills’s effort to rename the street was chronicled last year in the Middletown Press.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Walsh felt Zagaris’ photos would help chronicle his time with the team.
    Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The movie will chronicle the highs and lows, setbacks and moments of euphoria of Raj’s life.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • There has been a reckoning of sorts for those who have chronicled the rise of these culinary stars.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • If the world is ending, Mason is having a fine time chronicling it.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • This is a sad state of affairs, since the orchestra’s work deserves to be chronicled.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The premiere sets the clock ticking from the day of Lincoln’s death, and chronicles Stanton’s 12-day chase over seven hour-long episodes.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024

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