How to Use chronicle in a Sentence

chronicle

1 of 2 noun
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  • The video above is the chronicle of what happened in the words of Browns fans.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The drunk night chronicle is a glimpse of where their sound is going.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most of it reads like a chronicle of a mundane work trip.
    — Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
  • The list acts as a sort of chronicle of the decades worth of newsworthy things that took place during this one weird year.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Dec. 2020
  • It’s time to pick up arms and chronicle the events of the Future War.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The crux of the film is the chronicle of how Frank’s loyalties and principles are put to the test.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
  • What the show chronicles instead is the concrete jungle from which an artist’s dreams arose.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Below, a brief chronicle of the women who spoke truth to power this year and rocked the status quo.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2018
  • The jumbles that unfold in the show chronicle familiar themes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The records are a chronicle of physical fights between them.
    — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Of course, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of the chronicles of whites and their exploits in the slave trade.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 10 May 2018
  • This is the third film in Lifetime’s chronicle of their love story.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • He was well known for his books on the drug trade and chronicles of life in a state where cartels came to be seen as big business and benefactors of the poor.
    — David Agren, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • The bus tour has since been cast as a chronicle of an insurrection foretold.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • The chronicle of the Fancy’s journey is filled with horrors.
    — Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Only the names and the outcomes change, which makes the movie’s chronicle of what happens this time around that much more moving.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
  • There are very few icons in the chronicles of the Chinese struggle against state repression.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But the film is also a chronicle of dreams dashed and careers brutally sidelined.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In reality, this was the chronicle of a death foretold.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • None of those is a chronicle of cancer, the subject of most illness memoirs today.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Powers said the play is not a documentary-style chronicle of events.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Her chronicles of her day to day were shot through with comments about her fears of going to school and living with the constant threat of violence.
    — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue, 16 Dec. 2019
  • And experts who study and chronicle mass killings warned Tuesday that there could be more as the nation reverts to a more normal way of life.
    — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Bold writers can draw on the daily chronicles of hypocrisy and clampdowns recorded by a lively press.
    — L.t. | Kampala, The Economist, 23 Aug. 2019
  • But while the chronicle of the stripping of hers is heartbreaking, its lessons are surprisingly few.
    — Katie Hafner, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The result is a chronicle that, while not overtly dull, never quite makes a reader’s pulse race.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • De facto diaries and scrapbooks, the zines were a serious chronicle of the kind of chatter that adults still dismiss.
    — Time, 13 June 2023
  • Federal court records made public Monday chronicle the chain of events that led to the massive bust.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her.
    — Time, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That struggle is now over, and the new one will now begin in the chronicles of college basketball history.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
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chronicle

2 of 2 verb
  • She intends to chronicle the broad social changes that have occurred in this part of the country.
  • The book chronicles the events that led to the American Civil War.
  • The show did chronicle the times that it was shot in and some of the issues that were dealt with at those times.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Djokovic’s woes over the last two years are well-chronicled.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • No place to chronicle the exploits of the beloved high school hockey teams.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Blair chronicled the romance from the beginning of the flight to baggage claim.
    — Kelli Stacy, courant.com, 6 July 2018
  • The Times asked her to chronicle the visit on her iPhone.
    — Scott Heller, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Boston’s rise as the biotech capital of the world has been well-chronicled.
    — Bill Sibold, STAT, 3 June 2018
  • O’Hara sometimes seems to be chronicling the life of an anthill.
    — Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • There has been a reckoning of sorts for those who have chronicled the rise of these culinary stars.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The report chronicles the binge day by day, and can be read in its entirety here.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2014
  • This book chronicles how one woman learned to face her troubles and overcome them.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The goal was first to be fair and chronicle the events leading to the mascot change, according to the show’s playbill.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 May 2021
  • The singer teases that the new show will be more intimate and chronicle her career journey.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Read more about baseball’s legends and the writers who chronicle them here.
    — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His goal is to bring back a core, an arm’s-length sample of a coral colony that chronicles decades of its lifetime.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
  • It's built around a small story set in a small town and chronicling the small-time life of a small-time nobody.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
  • The show will chronicle former players, coaches and past teams.
    — Joe Harrington, The Enquirer, 7 May 2021
  • The series will also chronicle the launch of her new album, which is set to release next year.
    — Ej Panaligan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • My goal was to talk to crew members and chronicle their working conditions.
    — By Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This is a sad state of affairs, since the orchestra’s work deserves to be chronicled.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
  • If the world is ending, Mason is having a fine time chronicling it.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • For some of us, it's meant chronicling the everyday heroes heading to work on the front lines.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2020
  • New parents are used to chronicling the firsts of childhood: the first time a baby smiles, sits up, crawls.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • My elder brother used them to chronicle our childhood in a stylistic way.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In fact, celebrity unions that go array in record-short timing are more par for the course, as chronicled in the tabloids.
    — Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Many of these monuments may be in the same squares where the events chronicled by EJI took place.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Ars chronicled the case more than two years ago in a feature that examined the Ellis case.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
  • As Bruce chronicled their ride in a blog, the support of his followers fueled him.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023

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