How to Use biennial in a Sentence

biennial

adjective
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  • The governor explained the biennial budget proposal.
  • The bricks show up singly or in stacks across biennial venues.
    — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The 34th edition of the biennial tournament was supposed to be played in June and July last year but was postponed to avoid Ivory Coast’s tropical rainy season.
    — Ciarán Fahey, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In other words, this sounds like a typical setup for a Ryder Cup played in Europe, where the home team hasn’t lost the biennial competition in 30 years.
    — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The biennial event brings together golfers from Europe to compete against golfers from the U.S. in three days of matchplay competition.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In 1978, the group hosted its first biennial convention in Dallas.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 25 July 2022
  • The new measures went into effect April 1 of this year as part of the General Assembly’s biennial state budget.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2022
  • It’s been four years since the biennial event was last held, a gap that’s seen the loss of elders and a pause on important cultural rites for Southeast Alaska’s Indigenous peoples.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
  • Parsley is a biennial plant with a two-year life cycle that produces only edible foliage in its first year and leaves and flowers in its second.
    — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The most recent biennial point-in-time count reflected 7,754 homeless people either in shelters or on the streets of San Francisco.
    — Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 June 2022
  • The House had favored 4 percent raises in each year of the biennial budget, plus 1 percent bonuses; the Senate had proposed straight 5 percent raises.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The biennial survey of nearly every school in the U.S. includes data on everything from test scores to staffing levels to bullying.
    — Chris Hacker, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The biennial competition features 12 golfers from the United States against 12 from Europe.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Mark Kelly Georgia has entered the second year of its biennial legislative session, and that means second chances.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This weekend, Disney’s biennial fan convention, the D23 Expo — a sort of state of the union for all things branded Disney — previewed some changes that might define the decade to come, including still more movie branding.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Annual and biennial herbs: Annuals are plants that grow for one season, flower, produce seeds, and then the original plant dies.
    — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 7 June 2022
  • But that has not stopped early interest in the race, which will be determined by delegates to the state party’s biennial convention next summer.
    — Patrick Svitek, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Dec. 2021

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