How to Use annex in a Sentence

annex

1 of 2 verb

• The government planned to annex the islands.
• The United States annexed Texas in 1845.
• Cave Springs also was trying to annex some of the land.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• That doesn't mean the city can't annex land that's not in the water service area.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2021
• The issue in Mobile is whether to annex areas west of the city limits.
  — al, 21 Feb. 2021
• The vote to be taken Tuesday would only annex the land to the city and rezone it.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• Two of the five parcels lie in unincorporated land that will be annexed by the city.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2019
• The agreement requires Israel to halt its plan to annex parts in the West Bank.
  — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• If the vote goes their way, the residents hope to annex land that has been leased for the solar facility.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
• That represents a key formal step toward allowing the city to annex the land and build on it.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 5 June 2018
• The goal here would be to make Putin and his backers feel enough pain to force them to abandon their intent to annex Ukraine.
  — Mick Mulroy, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2022
• Plans for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank have already been floated.
  — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2019
• Under the current deal, the city and parish split the 2-cent sales tax on any land annexed into the city limits.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The valley of tears has been annexed as a bastion of privileged white, male suffering.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• It was argued this required a treaty, but Congress chose to annex Texas by a law.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• There was now no real need to annex the West Bank and its half million settlers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Cities and villages cannot annex land from adjacent villages.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Those agreements stated that if the owners violated their terms, the city could annex their land.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Dec. 2021
• The land will subsequently be annexed by Lemont as part of the boundary agreement between the two villages.
  — Michelle Mullins, Daily Southtown, 13 July 2018
• As Russia sets the stage to annex its Ukrainian conquests, there appears to be no end in sight.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022
• That feeling is at the center of our food relationship, something to do with being annexed way up here.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
• Then there is the specter of the city annexing the township's portion of the Geauga Lake property.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Neumann also will have to annex the land from the town of Merton into Hartland.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
• The moderate left has usually sought to annex religious ethics into the public square rather than crush them.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine nearly five years ago and has since tightened its grip on it.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 26 Nov. 2018
• States cannot annex the moon, or Mars, or any celestial object.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• The city began the process of annexing the land in 2015.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• The city will annex the land into the municipality if approved.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• Bennett wants to annex two-thirds of the West Bank, a step that would preclude a Palestinian state.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• Versace was the first luxury label to thoroughly annex the music world.
  — Molly Young, GQ, 20 Mar. 2018

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annex

2 of 2 noun

• We store our old files in the annex.
• The addition will be used as an annex to the library.
• The annex is across the street from the main courthouse.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2020
• The annex castle is one of the school buildings that have yet to be restored.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Campers can add a drop-down annex that forms a second room on the ground.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• Comoy insisted the annex not try to mimic the rest of the house.
  — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• Between the cracks in the stones that make up the annex, glass had been stuffed to keep out the rats, the researchers said.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• All six had ties to scientists who also worked in the annex.
  — Lewis Kamb, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• For one, it was held in person at in a meeting room in the courthouse annex.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2020
• The consular annex will change its name to the U.S. embassy.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
• The annex doesn’t match up with the four-story Capitol.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Details about why the county didn’t pay the annex electric bill last year.
  — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 11 June 2018
• None of them wants to see Russia annex parts of their beloved homeland.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2022
• The strains on the medical system are apparent in the annex, too.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Today the camp is split into eight sections and a foreign annex.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The collection quickly grew, and plans were put in motion to build an annex next door to house them all.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• The staircase to the annex was accessed from the parking lot, but they were interrupted.
  — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Voters are requested to wear face masks while inside the annex.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2020
• The annex is a rare remnant from medieval times that had been walled off and forgotten about for centuries..
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• But these oddities are not why the current annex is coming down.
  — Melody Gutierrez, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2018
• The United Airlines gates might as well have been an annex to the players lounge.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The annex is attached to the state’s historic Capitol building.
  — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 14 June 2018
• School district officials planned to raze the old annex long ago, but never did.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• The annex houses the city's detectives; the main police department is a quarter of a mile down the street.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Everyone agrees the annex should have been remodeled long ago.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• The annex was only accessible via a door on the landing that was kept hidden by a bookcase.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2022
• As the pad’s best vantage point, the annex also features an outlook and balcony.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
• His church already has started seedlings of green peppers and Swiss chard in his church’s annex.
  — Adelle M. Banks, Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• The old Whitney Young school and annex will close and be demolished to make way for fields and parking.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• Of course, if there are only two of you, then use the annex for a kitchen, living room, or changing room.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024