1
: reckoned by the year
2
: occurring, appearing, made, done, or acted upon every year or once a year : annual
Examples of yearly in a Sentence
Adjective
She renews her lease on a yearly basis.
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Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
For a yearly subscription fee of $50, residents would receive a 96-gallon yard waste cart to be used for eight biweekly collections.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Arthur Allen, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
The mess from birds isn’t cheap; almost 25 percent of Americans pay more than $500 yearly to fix damage and wash their cars because of droppings.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Shares for Hoka and Ugg parent company Deckers Brands dropped over 8 percent in after-market trading on Thursday after the footwear maker posted yearly guidance below analysts’ expectations.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
For a yearly subscription fee of $50, residents would receive a 96-gallon yard waste cart to be used for eight biweekly collections.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adverb
If measles vaccination rates drop by an additional 10%, there could be an average of about 450,000 cases yearly, with hundreds of deaths and cases of brain damage.
—Arthur Allen, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
The mess from birds isn’t cheap; almost 25 percent of Americans pay more than $500 yearly to fix damage and wash their cars because of droppings.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Yearly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yearly. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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