How to Use canon in a Sentence

canon

noun

• By far the most playful and self-aware entry in the stop canon.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Now there’s a new entry to the canon: bookshelf wealth.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• As the word implies, for some fans, canon is no less than holy writ.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• That’s our medium to define the canon now, which is wild to think about.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
• Fans of Jeopardy!, Jenna Bush Hager is now part of the quiz show canon.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2023
• This canon event begs so many questions that my brain struggles to bear the weight of them.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 28 July 2023
• There will be many new ones in the future and there is certainly a huge canon of them from the past.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Both treated the same canon of modern-day subjects: the racecourse, the brasserie, the milliner’s shop, the brothel.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2024
• One problem in the creation of a new East German canon was the lack of antecedents.
  — Joanna Biggs, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Amazon also announced that the series will be part of the same canon as the video games.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• Belichick couldn’t put his pride and his canon aside to sign Hopkins.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• That’s not Baldwin, whose inclusion in the canon is rare as a Black man.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• For the Star Wars junkie, there is no end to the movies, TV shows, books, and merchandise that further immerse you in the beloved canon.
  — Micki Wagner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• During the 10-minute service, the cathedral’s dean, the sub-dean, and the reverend canon led prayers for the royal couple.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2023
• Inon Zur's superb soundtrack draws from the best of the best in the science fiction canon, too.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Mar. 2023
• The old tradition that the bride’s parents should cover the whole bill is no longer nuptial canon.
  — Virginia Van Zanten, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• At best, this is Palmer adding her two cents to the canon of unbreakable ground rules for how women in R&B want to be treated.
  — Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
• Packaged together, the 36 plays took on the shape of a cohesive canon.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• As a result, its script is one of the least developed in his theatrical canon.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Victor von Doom, one of the most important and fearsome villains in the Marvel canon, has yet to be cast.
  — Variety, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• On occasion, there is a creative blending that invents a new myth for the UFO canon.
  — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2023
• So that has been part of the literacy development canon for a long time, and a lot of our shows had been in that space.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
• The Color Purple is one of the most important books in the canon of world literature.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• Pharmercy fans will have to wait longer for their relationship to be enshrined in canon.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 May 2023
• What’s more, he’s added to an already exhausted canon without bringing much of anything new to the shelf.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Brilla’s leaders intentionally take a wide view of the canon, and of which texts are valuable to study.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Arleen Sorkin helped inspire the creation of Harley Quinn — who was a canon immigrant from the cartoon series to comics, films, and video games.
  — Vulture, 27 Aug. 2023
• Many songs from across the musical canon feature the sound of ocean waves, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, bird calls and other sounds of nature.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2024
• Obviously, this video is not part of The Sopranos canon.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024