How to Use litany in a Sentence

litany

noun
  • The team blamed its losses on a litany of injuries.
  • He has a litany of grievances against his former employer.
  • What to know: The Saints enter Week 6 with a litany of injuries.
    Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
  • This piece is far more than just a litany of bizarre behavior.
    Longreads, 22 Sep. 2023
  • His wife, Cheryl Traud, ticked off a litany of reasons to vote for the Republican.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • As was the case two years ago, the 2022 midterm elections have sparked a litany of baseless accusations of fraud.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The 'growth at any cost' attitude and litany of Mega deals have all but disappeared.
    Mark Flickinger, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Her litany of woes traces the limits of science and the deficiencies of healthcare.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In the same report, the officer listed a litany of complaints that had been filed in recent months.
    Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • The quick return of power and low number of fatalities from Idalia may be added to that litany.
    Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • While most movies would be happy enough with all of those achievements, Barbie has added even more to its litany of honors.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But Anosov thought there might be a whole litany of dynamical systems that act this way.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Horn has only played in 22 of the 51 games in which he’s been eligible to appear over the past three seasons due to a litany of injuries.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • She’s been seen in a litany of belly non-revealing outfits.
    Vulture, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, the cricket icon turned politician has faced a litany of legal issues — and has dozens of pending cases against him.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Some of those people came forward on social media with a litany of complaints.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Her girlhood is a litany of loss: of her gentle father; of her family home, bombed during the war; and of much else besides.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 1 Mar. 2023
  • Overarching themes of identity and betrayal are tied to the litany of men in her life.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • After her first shift, my daughter issued a litany of grievances.
    Rebecca Knight, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In emails and phone calls over the last several weeks, teachers and parents cited a litany of examples.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • In contrast, Google’s Bard provided a litany of contributing factors for the war.
    Allie Funk, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Caruso missed half of last season with a litany of injuries, including a fractured wrist, back spasms and sprains to his ankle and foot.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Qatar has faced a litany of criticism since 2010, when it was chosen by FIFA to host the biggest soccer tournament in the world.
    Graham Dunbar, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • That means that even the most committed reader gets respite from the litany of sequences of abuse, which so shockingly ruin Jude’s entire life.
    David Benedict, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family have been embroiled in a litany of court cases in recent years.
    Ethan Barton, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Democrats have, in recent years, demonstrated the tendency to dream a little too big and pile untold sums of campaign cash in the coffers of a litany of no-hopers.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • And no history of the Voice can ignore the litany of ferocious battles that took place inside its headquarters.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Baldwin’s lawyers have accused the New Mexico prosecutors of a litany of abuses, and are seeking to have the case dismissed.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The pangs of soaring rentals add to the litany of challenges facing Brits amid a cost-of-living crisis touching nearly every aspect of life from food to fuel.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The litany of external problems is more than matched by domestic challenges.
    Susanna Hoffman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024

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