yearly

adjective year·ly \ ˈyir-lē \

|Updated on: 2 Aug 2018

Examples: yearly in a Sentence

Definition of yearly

1 : reckoned by the year

2 : occurring, appearing, made, done, or acted upon every year or once a year : annual

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Examples of yearly in a Sentence

She renews her lease on a yearly basis.

Recent Examples of yearly from the Web

Sparks received a modest $5,000 pay raise from his previous yearly salary while Williams received a $7,000 signing bonus and admission to a corporate profit-sharing plan, prosecutors said.

— matthew ormseth, courant.com, "Former Employee Of Groton Defense Contractor Requests New Trial After Conviction For Stealing Navy Secrets," 12 July 2018
Journalist and royal expert Kate Nicholl told ET that the bill was being picked up by her new father-in-law, Prince Charles, who gets the money from his $28 million yearly salary.

— sarah midkiff, refinery29.com, "We've Seen $1 Million Of Meghan Markle's Royal Wardrobe," 30 June 2018
New York's yearly celebration of Latin cool is happening this week.

— billboard staff, Billboard, "Five Best Acts at New York's LAMC," 10 July 2018
There will also be releases on trade from China and India that will be perused for clues on how the global economy is traveling, while Australia's central bank releases its half-yearly financial stability review.

— Bloomberg.com, "Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day," 12 Apr. 2018
If that holds true, the yearly average temperature for the South Central region, which includes San Antonio, would be 71.65 degrees in 2048, as compared with an average yearly temperature of 69.78 degrees over the past 30 years.

— austin horn, San Antonio Express-News, "Prediction of rising temperatures for San Antonio raises possibility of alternating droughts, heavy rain," 20 June 2018
To this day, Stonehenge still holds a yearly solstice event that's open to the public.

— refinery29.com, "How To Make The Most Of The Longest Day Of The Year," 18 June 2018
Policies in the draft so far include a tax set at 15 percent, and at 20 percent for families with a yearly income of more than 80,000 euros, ($96,000) according to a League official who declined to be named discussing a confidential document.

— john follain, Bloomberg.com, "The Ink Is Almost Dry on Italy’s 15% Flat Tax Rate," 14 May 2018
The effects have been felt in cities from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the yearly average temperature rose 2.9 degrees in the past 30 years, to Yakima, Washington, where the thermometer jumped a tad more.

— Washington Post, "Global warming cooks up ‘a different world’ over 3 decades," 18 June 2018

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