How to Use quadrennial in a Sentence

quadrennial

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• And now for the second time, the quadrennial World Cup is coming to the U.S. in the summer of 2026.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Dragons hadn’t made it to the quadrennial dance since 1958 when they were knocked out by Brazil and a teenaged Pele.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• Big changes are coming to the U.S. team for the next quadrennial, both on the ice and off, but the final day of the Pyeongchang Olympics showed hope for the future.
  — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Brubaker is the second Alaskan to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games, a quadrennial event first held in 2012.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• The quadrennial summer and winter events come at a cost.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 26 July 2024
• Still, other host cities have faced censure for the high cost of the quadrennial spectacle, in the face of more dire social needs.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Even those playing a level or three below the World Cup find this the best part of the quadrennial period.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• This year marks the first timethe quadrennial tournament is held in the winter instead of over the summer.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
• A few weeks later, the Olympics would postpone their quadrennial games.
  — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2021
• The quadrennial passing of the torch has begun for the third time, this time with Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the sidelines.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• Both Paris and Los Angeles have been pushing to get the 2024 games, following Tokyo as host of the quadrennial event.
  — James Rainey, NBC News, 9 June 2017
• The quadrennial tournament sees 24 teams drawn into six groups of four that play in a round-robin format.
  — James Robson, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• Amp will premiere the show live from Qatar, which is hosting the quadrennial soccer tourney, on Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. PT.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• In a sport so geared to the quadrennial event, athletes train in cycles and with different agendas.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
• And there is, inevitably, the quadrennial reminder that more binds us together than tears us apart.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2020
• But one of the most stunning backdrops for the quadrennial competition won’t be in Paris – or France for that matter.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 8 July 2024
• Back when the Olympics dominated the news media, U.S. women figure skaters often were the faces of the quadrennial events, known by their first names.
  — Sally Bronston, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2018
• Those quadrennial contests were when voters thought about the big picture: things like the economy and war.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• But for many, the focus was elsewhere, and more specifically, how the process of bidding for and hosting the quadrennial games can be better for cities.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2018
• At least half a million visitors from all over the world will visit Russia to attend the quadrennial event.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2018
• The quadrennial round-the-world regatta is one of sailing’s most prestigious events.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2006
• But the Americans certainly didn’t land the softest group for the quadrennial spectacle, which runs from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• In 2014, the quadrennial review by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service laid out four scenarios for how the fire landscape might look in a decade or so.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• There are still four days left in the quadrennial competition, so Moon’s ebullience might be a bit premature.
  — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• This time around, though, World Cup allegiance has been made simpler here by the United States team’s absence from the quadrennial soccer showpiece.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
• The quadrennial men’s soccer tournament will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries, and Orlando is in the mix to be one of the venues.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• The quadrennial quirk of the calendar was the perfect time to reveal that the final chapter in the Blurryface saga will unfold when the Columbus, Ohio duo’s seventh album drops on May 17.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• While this quadrennial tradition in New Hampshire usually follows the script, there’s a chance for some curveballs this time around.
  — Fox News, 30 Oct. 2019
• As with any quadrennial, there will be stories of glorious triumph, heartbreaking defeat, feel-good underdogs, and maybe even a villain or two.
  — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 26 July 2024
• That means another quadrennial of staring at that black line, another world championships next summer, more yardage, more Sunday swims.
  — Dave Sheinin, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024