How do you use the word "announce" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "announce" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "announce": The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign. The mayor declared that he would announce the result of the investigation.

Announce Meaning

/əˈnaʊns/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.

verbTo pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

Sentence Examples

The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign.

The mayor declared that he would announce the result of the investigation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

declare denote

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The principal will ____ the winner of the science fair during the morning assembly tomorrow.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The company will ____ its new CEO during the press conference tomorrow.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin nūntius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nūntiō Latin adnūntiō Latin annūntiōder. Old French anoncierder. English announce From Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio. Doublet of annunciate. See also an-.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts." — c. 1780, William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain:

"Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines." — 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

"The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll." — 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

"Publish laws, announce / Or life or death." — c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus:

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