ANNUAL in a Sentence

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72 example sentences for ANNUAL, such as:

1. The annual rate of inflation fell.
2. He addressed the annual Republican convention.
3. They will dock us of two days of our annual leave.
4. I may mention at once that this became an annual custom.
5. All employees get an annual bonus before the summer holidays.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANNUAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
annual
 a.  occurring once every year; payable once every year
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  This afternoon he wasn't Giles Oliver come to see the villagers act their annual pageant; manacled to a rock he was, and forced passively to behold indescribable horror.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  You were so good as to promise that you would always substitute the phrase, annual compliment.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
4  If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
5  However improbable both Mr. Bounderby and myself might have deemed it years ago, that he would ever become my patron, making me an annual compliment, I cannot but regard him in that light.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
6  Mrs. Gryce had a kind of impersonal benevolence: cases of individual need she regarded with suspicion, but she subscribed to Institutions when their annual reports showed an impressive surplus.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  In the lee of the stonily mature trio Carol proceeded to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  I've been thinking about getting up an annual Community Day, when the whole town would forget feuds and go out and have sports and a picnic and a dance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seeking for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  This request the Legislature had complied with to the extent of granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
11  This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
12  Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
13  As a result of the influence of these gatherings, one delegate reported at the last annual meeting that ten families in his community had bought and paid for homes.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
14  I may mention at once that this became an annual custom.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
15  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest.
17  The houses are built on stilts to protect them from the annual floods.
18  Companies publish annual reports to inform the public about the previous year's activities.
19  The annual rate of inflation fell.
20  You will receive annual salary/pay increments every September.
21  He addressed the annual Republican convention.
22  For example, while annual reports usually name the chairman and board members they do not always reveal their salaries.
23  All employees get an annual bonus before the summer holidays.
24  They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
25  Finance minister Sinha will announce an extra tax to ease the financial pain in his annual budget speech.
26  It says that the Queen's role in the annual state opening of parliament should be changed.
27  When the bank examiners arrived to hold their annual audit, they discovered the embezzlements of the chief cashier.
28  All the Girl Scouts made a concerted effort to raise funds for their annual outing.
29  They will dock us of two days of our annual leave.
30  The reading out of a roll call of the dead has become an annual rite.