Examples of anthology in a Sentence

an anthology of American poetry The band will be releasing an anthology of their earlier albums.

Recent Examples on the Web Three years after arriving in Britain, the BBC picked up one of his teleplays for its Screenplay anthology series and attached a young up-and-coming filmmaker to shoot it. — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2022 These series included a new Hellblazer comic featuring John Constantine, the horror anthology Nightmare Country, and Books of Magic, starring a previous Gaiman creation called Tim Hunter. — Joe George, Men's Health, 6 Aug. 2022 The true crime anthology series shows the dangerous path when manipulative love becomes twisted. — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2022 The anthology gains value like a limited edition print of an artwork or photograph that endures through decades or centuries of social and aesthetic change. — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 31 July 2022 Smith—who had previously worked with Netflix on Dolly Parton's Heartstrings anthology series and was an executive producer on Greek and Chasing Life—was brought in after Tenney moved on to other projects. — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 28 July 2022 So would the team behind the series explore an anthology model to tackle different parts of Targaryen history? — Justine Browning, EW.com, 28 July 2022 The third season featured the main cast traveling throughout Europe in just more than half of its ten episodes with the other episodes shifting back to Atlanta, containing anthology stories focused on new characters. — Carson Burton, Variety, 22 July 2022 Garth Brooks will release the second installment of his anthology book and CD series later this year. — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 30 June 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for anthology

borrowed from French & New Latin; French anthologie, going back to Middle French, borrowed from New Latin anthologia, borrowed from Greek anthología "gathering of flowers," from anthológos "flower-gathering" (from antho- antho- + -logos, nominal ablaut derivative of légein "to gather, collect") + -ia -ia entry 1 — more at legend

Note: The sense "collection of extracts" is found earlier in the parallel formation anthológion, attested in Byzantine Greek.

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