How to Use annotate in a Sentence

annotate

verb
  • He annotated the text at several places.
  • The plot here is annotated by a Greek chorus of street Urchins.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Tap on it for the ability to quickly annotate and share it.
    Anick Jesdnun, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The two of you can then annotate the screen to pass along or comment on directions in real time.
    Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
  • As for the latest work, the fine denizens of the Internet have been annotating it in the hours since the portrait was released by the White House.
    Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 3 Apr. 2017
  • For students looking to take notes or annotate a book, the Kindle Scribe is the best option.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2023
  • These are our top gift ideas to help moms work from home, annotate their books, or dip into the world of gaming in their downtime.
    Adrienne So Gear Team, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The short video of a few driving scenarios illustrates how the system sees and annotates the world around it.
    Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2020
  • These answers are annotated with links to the sources the A.I. used, which also appear in a panel above the response.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Read a transcript of the speech, annotated by Callum Borchers.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
  • As a student annotates a book for study, the faithful mark up their copies of Scripture, noting passages that speak to them.
    Nicholas Tomaino, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The markup tools to edit and annotate screenshots have also been beefed up, with the option to add text, emojis, and stickers.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This collection is annotated with the weight of each fish.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • People use Snapchat to talk to their friends, sending photos and videos that may be annotated with fun masks and stickers.
    Bloomberg, latimes.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Based on the sketches, which are annotated with details, Burges made six silver brooches for the second wedding and three in gold.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Would reputation be a way for Swift to annotate the headlines of the past few years, like the musical version of a Genius post?
    Josh Duboff, Vanities, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Basically, the researchers found a way to alter both the signature process of PDFs as well as to annotate changes.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 1 June 2021
  • The interview covered a lot of other ground, too, so The Fix has annotated the full transcript below.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • Tarek and Christina annotate this renovation that was abandoned mid-flip — maybe because the house didn’t have a roof.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The two scientists woke early to make breakfast for the group and search for plants, traversed the rapids and cliff walls with the men in boats all day and then made dinner while annotating their findings.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Ms. Coonan said that the stories had been typed and annotated by the author.
    Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Michael Rothfeld had just hours to annotate 29 pages of documents related to the charges against Donald J. Trump.
    Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Jam Browser is one seamless workspace where teams can browse and annotate the web together, and Bug Jam captures debug logs and a screenshot in one click.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The first of two volumes, the book has been annotated up the kazoo with persnickety footnotes, weighs 4.1 lbs., and requires a great deal of upper-arm strength to carry around.
    Daphne Merkin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • This is a transcript of that call, with key sections highlighted and annotated.
    Aaron Blake, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • They were put out under the head official at the time, Zhu Hailun, who annotated and signed some personally.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Humans also annotate and label some of these [videos of customers shopping] in order for our algorithms to be able to learn and get trained.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • To the medical experts, his son had been a ten-inch-tall stack of paper annotated with clinical notes.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Some data exist in neat and tidy datasets—labeled, annotated, fact-checked, and free for download in a common file format.
    Niall Ferguson, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
  • On the 9 Pro Fold, screenshots are corralled into a new folder where they can be searched, annotated, and organized.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 13 Aug. 2024

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