How to Use annotation in a Sentence

annotation

noun
  • Without the annotations, the diagram would be hard to understand.
  • The writing’s been on the wall about annotations for some time now.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Users will also be able to add their own annotations and data overlays.
    Brandon Keim, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2007
  • The annotations on each chart depict a very bullish setup, three different ways.
    Carter Braxton Worth, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The prose poem is written as annotations to a diagram of a handgun.
    Krys Malcolm Belc, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2026
  • While the annotations offer insight across the plaques, they are not meant to be comprehensive.
    New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The nuance and judgement needed is not that of the domain experts alone, but also the annotation on the edge case.
    Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • But the chapters about the Baxleys contain no such annotations.
    Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Many of the staff were data annotation specialists, all of which are hourly positions, one of the people said.
    Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • Their items include book bundles for kids and adults, bookmarks, stickers, beadwork, and annotation kits.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There are tools to make highlights and annotations, and to cross out multiple-choice responses students think are wrong.
    Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Org Inc -- that will decide whether annotations of state government code are copyrightable.
    Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 24 June 2019
  • Google, for instance, saves some conversations for review and annotation, storing them for up to four years.
    Tatum Hunter, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Cataphiles’ maps are full of annotations, though some just keep the ever-changing information in their head.
    Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Snip & Sketch also comes with helpful screenshot annotation and editing tools to bring the best out of your screenshots.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 24 May 2022
  • Handwritten annotations in the psalter reveal what the king thought of the text and its implications for his own power.
    V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Notice the two above-average volume bars that occurred on strong positive days with the green and red annotations.
    Todd Gordon, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Employees can quickly scan the annotations and decide if the data sources are trustworthy and make sense.
    Larry English, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Billions should either come with a Hedge Fund 101 class or live annotations.
    refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The top-level vinyl and CD editions both include a book filled with photos, essays and track-by-track annotation.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The remaining images were used as a test to see if the algorithm could identify hand washing without the annotations.
    Lisa Ward, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • In annotation, the genome’s many genes are identified and, ideally, their functions described.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • By clicking the annotation, the user will be navigated to the search page with the results for this annotation.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile, notes, sketches, and quick annotations feel natural with the responsive pen.
    PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, notes, sketches, and quick annotations feel natural with the responsive pen.
    PC Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The inherent problem is to do so—for a large amount of motions—without introducing mistakes in the annotation.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2019
  • The suit claims — and a review of each song’s Genius annotation confirms — that the two compositions bear a strong resemblance.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • What's needed is another layer of annotation to indicate the structure and function of that sequence.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The sketches, which also show Diana’s annotations, will be changed every six months to show a variety of designs created for the late princess.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 19 Feb. 2019
  • This year alone, the brand has been referenced nearly 100 times in rap songs indexed on the lyric-annotation platform Genius.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022

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