How to Use biennial in a Sentence
biennial
adjective- The governor explained the biennial budget proposal.
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The bricks show up singly or in stacks across biennial venues.
— Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The biennial event will feature ten young singers, between the ages of 18 and 30, who live or study in Texas.
— Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 May 2020 -
Since then, the biennial event has been held in even-number years.
— Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2020 -
The biennial promises to be a cross-disciplinary record of that time.
— Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022 -
The DefExpo is a biennial event, and this year’s edition would have been the 12th.
— Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022 -
The biennial budget for the W.H.O. is about $6 billion, which comes from member countries around the world.
— Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020 -
The city’s biennial budget of nearly $3.4 billion is set to pass in June.
— Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021 -
The biennial budget for the W.H.O. is about $6 billion.
— Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020 -
During the closure, lifts will be used to inspect the underside of the bridge, part of the biennial inspection of the nearly 50-year-old bridge.
— oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023 -
The biennial Solheim Cup women's golf team event moves to even years starting in 2024.
— Mike Starling, theweek, 1 Jan. 2024 -
This change in the biennial tournament led to a review in prize money.
— Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 10 Jan. 2022 -
Over the past five years, the state Department of Forestry has seen its biennial budget fall by about $18 million or about 2%.
— Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021 -
The world championships are a biennial Olympic-style ski meet, and skiers covet its medals as much as anything in the sport short of Olympic hardware.
— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023 -
The initiative was approved as part of the biennial state budget in June.
— Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 9 Sep. 2021 -
This time, the biennial ritual has given way to full-blown chaos.
— Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023 -
The biennial system purports to be against the market, as if that were even possible.
— Vulture, 5 June 2023 -
The signing of the laws marks the end of Texas’ state legislature for the next two years because lawmakers meet on a biennial system.
— Solcyre Burga, Time, 18 June 2023 -
Not to mention the $100 million deficit in next year’s biennial budget that will have to be closed through severe cuts or layoffs.
— Janani Ramachandran, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024 -
This year is the 15 th time the Cato Institute has released its biennial report.
— Bruce Walker, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2020 -
So is there a chance the museums may never show this year’s biennial in person?
— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020 -
The next biennial event will take place in June 2022 at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre.
— Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Bean played twice during the biennial event between the United States and Europe.
— Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2021 -
The bill had not passed the House, but many of its provisions were wrapped into the 2019 biennial budget bill, which breezed through both chambers and was signed into law by DeWine.
— cleveland, 6 May 2020 -
Others have claimed that a biennial World Cup would mean too many games for their star players, while at the same time pushing for more and more Champions League games.
— Steve Price, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 -
The biennial count helps determine the number of homeless in Orange County and their needs.
— Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024 -
Pending bills are stacked up and the biennial state budget, which needs House and Senate approval before the end of June, is still unfinished.
— Andrew Selsky, ajc, 12 May 2023 -
The convention, which will take place for the first time in 2023, was originally conceived of as a biennial compliment to the show in Switzerland.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2022 -
Disney teased the first fruits of this expansion last month ahead of its biennial D23 convention.
— Caroline Reid, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 -
Sign up for free biennial passport, hear from artists and curators, get free limited edition t-shirt and more.
— Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2024
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