How to Use annual in a Sentence

annual

1 of 2 adjective
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  • We had more snow this year than the average annual amount.
  • The company's earnings for last year are published in the annual report.
  • The annual meeting is in July.
  • The company charges an annual fee of $45.
  • Nestled in the Berkshires, Lenox is the place to be when the leaves begin their annual shift.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2023
  • After the first year, the annual 5,000-point bonus helps offset some of the cost of the annual fee.
    — Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 6 Oct. 2023
  • So to me, people who are willing to drive $2 trillion annual deficits are the agents of chaos.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The first weeks in July are when trollers catch the most king salmon in a season and earn a big chunk of their annual paychecks.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • Footage of the film was one highlights of the annual convention of exhibitors.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • In the second half of last year, prices grew just 2% at an annual rate, matching the Fed’s target.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In the second half of last year, prices grew just 2% at an annual rate, matching the Fed's target.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The annual year-end charts were launched back in the 1940s, and have become a staple of the magazine and website since.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
  • With the first option, the jackpot amount is spread out over 30 years as an annual payment.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The annual event has honored more than 500 women in Greater Cincinnati.
    — Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 20 June 2023
  • The season for Scholastic Book Fairs has kicked off, a time when students shop for books at annual pop-up fairs in their own hallways.
    — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The whiskey returned the following year as an annual limited-release, and is now back for a third run.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • Emily helped Justin launch Carnival of Love, though the annual event was canceled in 2022 due to the pandemic.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But awards season obsessives still look to the annual boozy affair for portents of what may (or may not) be ahead at the Oscars.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That’s up considerably from February’s 3.2% rate and marks the highest annual gain in the past six months.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • South Korea’s annual meat intake per person exceeded that of rice for the first time in 2022.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The clan emerged this month as the world’s third wealthiest in Bloomberg’s annual ranking of family fortunes.
    — Tara Patel, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The annual drag show and party in Spenard is debuting a new format.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • The two-part series premiere will feature the queens showing off their stuff in the annual talent show, which has become a mainstay on the series.
    — Variety, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Congress has twice passed stopgap funding bills to stave off a shutdown, but has yet to pass an annual spending package in full.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Mariah Carey impressed in a winter white look for her annual trip to Aspen, Colorado.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Some taxpayers may get a break next year on their taxes thanks to the annual inflation adjustment of tax brackets set by the IRS.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, his oversized business card resembles a baseball card, with a photo of him holding a baseball glove on the front and his annual sales numbers on the back.
    — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Pechanga’s Round Bar will host this annual standing-room-only party with live DJ and midnight balloon drop.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The results would mark a nearly half-percentage-point decline from the annual increase shown the previous month.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • First up is a performance as part of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 14 Nov. 2023
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annual

2 of 2 noun
  • We planted some annuals in front of the house.
  • Some plants need more space to spread out and other plants, such as herbs and annuals, can do just fine in small planters.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
  • The cover these annuals provide is so thick that deer will often bed right in the plot.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2020
  • These annuals are all easy to grow from seed and can be sown directly in the garden.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Brown for perennials and trees and shrubs; green for annuals and row crops.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • Had the 1st annual Dave Nichol health check for our football staff today.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The annual requires little to no care and will bloom well into fall.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • That's because this is the time of the year when all the local greenhouses are filled with the summer blooming annuals.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The 76th annual Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
  • Enjoy them as annuals or dig up the tubers before winter and store them in a cool, dark place to plant again next year.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That leaves you with the annuals packaged with your hanging baskets.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Green mulches are for annuals and brown mulches are for everything else.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2018
  • These small, compact annuals provide sporadic color in the winter months and then form a carpet of blooms in the spring.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Where Good King Henry does not grow as a perennial, it can be grown as an annual.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Second, while the soil remains loose in the days and weeks after planting, cover the area with a large plastic plant tray that annuals are sold in.
    — Nancy Brachey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Garden centers would be thrilled to sell summer annuals this time of year.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
  • Gardeners in Zones 2-7 can plant the tubers in early spring and treat them as annuals or dig them up and store them for winter.
    — Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The rule is simple: use a green mulch, i.e. grass clippings or straw, on annuals and brown mulches such as last fall's leaves on perennials, and around trees and shrubs.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2018
  • The containers are in full sun, with sun-loving annuals on my back patio.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • The give and take between annuals and perennials are annuals will bloom all summer long, then die at the end of the season.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 June 2023
  • Change out the pot with fall annuals, mums, grasses and other cool-season flowers.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
  • But the company will be shipping a few of the new selections to greenhouses, mostly in the annuals area.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
  • The tubers are grown as annuals in the Upper and Middle South but will return yearly in frost-free gardens.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
  • Ziegler has a few favorite annuals that have proven reliable and that last long in a vase with minimal messy pollen drop.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2023
  • First, remove any plants that are well past their prime, usually the spring blooming annuals.
    — Karen Dardick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • Plant single species or mixes of warm-season annuals about one inch deep.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
  • In fact, many cold-region gardeners opt to just grow dahlias as annuals, buying new plants each year.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
  • In a perfect-world scenario, testing would start during high school at their annuals, along with PAP smear.
    — Kim Brooks, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Riley explained that one of the annuals, Love-in-a-Mist, is an unusual flower that comes back by itself.
    — Joan Hunt, courant.com, 27 June 2019
  • The annuals in my containers seem to be struggling, some with the foliage of the plants taking on an off-green color and even looking a bit yellow.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023

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