How to Use append in a Sentence
append
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The books’ new owners will append the stories that suit them.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
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The thought was probably, well, why not append those to the full-length?
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2019
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People will take it to the streets, or there will be people who would want to append a system in some way.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Facebook chose to append a generic label to most of that content rather than ban it.
—Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2021
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The post is appended with an update, which the letter writer sent in this week.
—Gabriella Paiella and Jessica Roy, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
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That means the passwords were appended with a unique string of text and then passed through a one-way hash function.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2018
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Reid even wrote the lyrics to Aurora, which are appended to the book.
—Alexandra Molotkow, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
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If there’s such a thing as a brute force assist, append video of that play to the dictionary entry.
—Alexander Abnos, SI.com, 15 May 2017
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That means every tweet now has the number of replies, likes, retweets, bookmarks and views appended to it.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
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By the first day of the show at H-Space, three more names had been appended to the bottom.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
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Those iframes then got appended to files that were included in the Android apps.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
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The memo also appended an email template that advisors can send to clients.
—Weilun Soon, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
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Entries can be appended to these logs when new software is released, but they can't be changed or deleted.
—David Nield, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2023
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Gervais, who is an atheist, appended to the tweet a photo of himself being licked by a dog.
—Jon Brown, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
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For anyone hoping to get rich off viral videos, then, the incentive to append hashtags, corny or not, is strong.
—Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
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In theory, this base of information could be reused or appended to new surveys as time goes by.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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Most of the videos are appended with searchable transcripts—a fun tool for those interested in lexical tics.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
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American men married to women are five times more likely to fully adopt their wife’s surname than to append it to their own with a hyphen.
—The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2024
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Schiltz appended a four-page list of 96 court orders that ICE had defied.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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The misleading phrasing should be changed for clarity, and a note should be appended to the story to acknowledge the change.
—Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
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Some lists could contain more than 200 entries that must be appended to the DBX.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
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Some start out simple, but a second set of instructions may then be appended to the first, complicating matters.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
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More on the Facebook response is appended to the end of the original article below.
—Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2018
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Mr Beall’s list has been taken up by another researcher who has since appended 690 new journals to it.
—The Economist, 21 June 2018
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The study found that ads appended with the second message—revealing that users had been tracked across the web—were 24 percent less effective.
—Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 11 May 2018
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The transformer then processes it as above and ultimately produces one more token — which is appended to the most recent input and sent back in again.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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That method has worked in Ars' testing, as has appending practically any other text string after a minus sign at the end of a search, for some reason.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
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The second section contains the letters, with notes from Guralnick appended.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
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Those might be Russell Westbrook’s favorite words, appended to most of the all-world guard’s Instagram posts.
—Sam Schube, GQ, 30 Aug. 2017
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Namely, lawyer Preston Byrne proposed that authors should append a cryptographic hash to the cover of their books.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 21 Feb. 2023
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