Example Sentences

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She is chronicling the detritus of urban life, the echoes of the city’s past evident in the patches, and nature’s attempt at reclamation all visible in the humble squares of concrete and asphalt.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

But sometimes the process is more fraught, because the events a writer is chronicling are more fraught.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2019

Part of Esiebo's work is chronicling the rapid development of urban Nigeria and capturing the people in the cities.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2017

"Magnolia Lane was just how I had imagined it from pictures and television," wrote Woods, who is chronicling her first trip to Augusta National.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2013

It must tell the reader at once that the event which it is chronicling happened to-day or last night—at least since the last edition of the paper.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor