(n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
(n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
(n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
(v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
(3) My first novel began as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
(4) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
(5) The Long War Journal website chronicled 44 green-on-blue attacks that year.
(6) The bad news is that we may also learn a lot more about him (particularly from copious investigations by the Times , chronicling the high jinks and low politics of Nigel and his followers in Strasbourg).
(7) The span of history chronicled within the Holocron covers 20,000 years of fictional events.
(8) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(9) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
(10) This article chronicles the steps that were taken by the nursing staff in preparation for these unique patients.
(11) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(12) He ran a restaurant after retirement, telling the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 that he has “a hunger to get back in the game,” and so this trip to North Korea just may be the opportunity he’s been waiting for.
(13) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
(14) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
(15) In his chronicle of centuries of economic exploitation, Galeano wrote: “The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret.
(16) In a report , she chronicled how a young man, deported after six years in the UK, was abducted upon returning to Kabul.
(17) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
(18) The majority of her books were successful fiction and included the 12-volume family sequence The Performers (1973-86) and the six-book sequence The Poppy Chronicles (1987-92).
(19) The Newcastle Evening Chronicle's front-page headline read "What a Joke".
(20) Our results chronicle the magnitude of metabolic response to spinal shock.
Memoirs
Definition:
(n.) A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
(n.) A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.
(n.) An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(2) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
(3) But Choi had come to the meeting with Kim prepared, according to her husband's memoir.
(4) It's hard to believe that her memoir, My Salinger Year , has not yet been published (it comes out this week).
(5) Tony Blair, in a new edition of his memoirs , argues powerfully that our political system is broken.
(6) She was often less secure than she sounded – as PR adviser, Tim Bell’s memoirs, serialised (where else?)
(7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(8) In my memoir Out of Place (1999) I described the strange and contradictory worlds in which I grew up, providing for myself and my readers a detailed account of the settings that I think formed me in Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon.
(9) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
(10) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(11) A similar situation occurred in the US last year, when the defence department paid $47,000 to destroy a former army intelligence officer's Afghan war memoir.
(12) After Hollande spent two hours on French radio in a patent relaunch of his presidency, a film producer announced that a biopic of Trierweiler’s revenge memoir, Merci Pour Ce Moment (Thank You For This Moment), is now in the works.
(13) One-offs such as The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974), The Good Terrorist (1985) and Love, Again (1996), so different from each other, and from the books belonging to schemes and series, revealed her enduring fascination with literary experiment.
(14) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(15) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
(16) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
(17) Some of the Los Alamos scientists, Tibbets wrote in his memoirs, had their heads in the clouds.
(18) Although in her memoir and her new book, Chua traces some of the problems with what could be called, almost interchangeably, triple-package or tiger parenting, there is no doubt she is essentially in favour of it.
(19) • Revolution 2.0: A Memoir from the Heart Of The Arab Spring, by Wael Ghonim, is published by Fourth Estate (£14.99 and ebook).
(20) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.