How to Use biennial in a Sentence

biennial

adjective
  • The governor explained the biennial budget proposal.
  • That virus’s biennial up-and-down is all about the ebb and flow of susceptible populations.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The city’s biennial budget of nearly $3.4 billion is set to pass in June.
    Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The state’s biennial legislative session lasts just 140 days.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Kaul said the request is a part of this year's biennial budget proposal from Gov. Tony Evers, but the funds will come from program revenue.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The agency has 10 employees and a biennial budget of $7.3 million.
    oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The reliable biennial doubling in the computational power of microchips, known as Moore’s Law, has been slowing, and could soon come to an end.
    Christopher Mims, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Boeing will be back on the global stage next week during the biennial Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom, one of the world’s largest aircraft shows.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • The games, first held in 1970, are a biennial gathering of young athletes from circumpolar regions around the globe.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The union said about 3,500 members and leaders are in Houston for their biennial convention.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 25 July 2024
  • Whistling Straits was supposed to hold the biennial event between American and European golfers last year, but was put on hold due to the pandemic.
    Fox News, 25 Sep. 2021
  • 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

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