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.
• The city began the process of annexing the land in 2015.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• That 110-acre site is in the Town of Grafton, and would be annexed into the village.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed that half of the city.
  — Alexia Underwood, Vox, 14 May 2018
• Cave Springs also was trying to annex some of the land.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• Hawaii, which the USA annexed in 1898, largely fit this this new plan.
  — Doug MacK, Slate Magazine, 9 Oct. 2017
• The agreement requires Israel to halt its plan to annex parts in the West Bank.
  — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The Dale Town Council voted in April to annex more than 500 acres for the plant just a mile from the town’s main street.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
• Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and annexed it.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• Ravinia used to be a village and was annexed by Highland Park in 1899.
  — Ally Marotti, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Vladimir Putin was kicked out in 2014 for annexing Crimea.
  — Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 8 June 2018
• In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and launched a war in eastern Ukraine.
  — Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Plans for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank have already been floated.
  — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2019
• 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
• It was argued this required a treaty, but Congress chose to annex Texas by a law.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• Bennett wants to annex two-thirds of the West Bank, a step that would preclude a Palestinian state.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• The city annexed the land, along with several other parcels, in an Aug. 31 vote.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 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
• Tensions have been high since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
  — James Ellingworth, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• There was now no real need to annex the West Bank and its half million settlers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Created by David Milch, the show ran for three seasons and was inspired by real-life historical events in South Dakota, as the land was annexed and the population grew with more settlers.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
• At the Crimea pavilion, throngs of visitors pose with men dressed as Roman legionnaires next to a video boasting about the bridge connecting the peninsula, which was illegally annexed in 2014, to the Russian mainland.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024

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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 consular annex will change its name to the U.S. embassy.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Campers can add a drop-down annex that forms a second room on the ground.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• The annex doesn’t match up with the four-story Capitol.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• The annex would house as many as 1,000 people, Faust said.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• The annex castle is one of the school buildings that have yet to be restored.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Comoy insisted the annex not try to mimic the rest of the house.
  — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• For one, it was held in person at in a meeting room in the courthouse annex.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2020
• None of them wants to see Russia annex parts of their beloved homeland.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2022
• The event will span all three of the Mitchell Park Domes (floral show, desert and tropical) and its annex.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The United Airlines gates might as well have been an annex to the players lounge.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Details about why the county didn’t pay the annex electric bill last year.
  — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 11 June 2018
• All six had ties to scientists who also worked in the annex.
  — Lewis Kamb, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• 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
• The downtown food hall and event venue — 3rd Street Market Hall — will open an annex in the right field loge level.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Sure, some of them can attracted by the annex of Mr. Blankenship.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2018
• Three years ago the Met drove its finances onto the rocks by leasing the Breuer building as an annex.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The annex is attached to the state’s historic Capitol building.
  — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 14 June 2018
• 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 latter group proposed its own reforms in an annex to the report.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
• The strains on the medical system are apparent in the annex, too.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021
• 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
• 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 Winter Farmers Market had taken place at the annex for eight years.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2021
• The staircase to the annex was accessed from the parking lot, but they were interrupted.
  — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The annex was a later addition to the main, 7-story structure rising above Pulaski Circle and the park.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024