How to Use yearly in a Sentence

yearly

1 of 2 adjective
  • She renews her lease on a yearly basis.
  • The Lemon Grove Lions hope to make the cookoff a yearly event.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, the Italian city is the site of a key yearly children’s book fair.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • To prevent things from getting out of hand again, do a yearly cleanup.
    Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • It’s been more than a decade since yearly home prices recorded a decline.
    Catherine Allen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Every year, the money the state gives to cities and towns falls short of the yearly increases in normal costs.
    Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Seasons are part of a yearly cycle based on the position of the Earth in relation to the sun.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Maintain it To prevent things from getting out of hand again, do a yearly cleanup.
    Nevin Martell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Overall food prices rose 2.4% on a yearly basis, matching the pace of inflation in the Bay Area.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But with the recent news of Pat exiting the show in the summer of 2024, there's a chance Vanna's yearly earnings may change.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2023
  • Dallas police have seen yearly declines in the total number of killings the past two years.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • The European Broadcasting Union, which puts on the yearly event, kicked Russia out of the contest in 2022.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • As of the last measure, annual inflation stood at 2.4% and the core yearly measure at 2.8%.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Hill was in her 40s when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a yearly mammogram, Brown said.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • According to the new guidance released Wednesday, even heavy smokers who quit 15 years ago or more should get the yearly scans.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • That would be the same as October’s flat monthly reading and a slowdown from that month’s 3.2% yearly increase.
    Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • One of the most impressive things about Clark’s career has been her yearly progression.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The Buckeyes’ yearly goals are to beat Michigan, win a Big Ten title and win a national title in that order.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022
  • This includes not only the day-to-day bill paying, but also the big task of preparing your yearly tax return.
    Carolyn McClanahan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Why does the state budget have a deficit? Part of the recipe for the yearly state budget includes a heap of predictions for how much money the state will make in tax collections.
    The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The land leases were renewed with residents on a yearly basis with a cruel clause: With just ten days’ notice, the city could take over.
    Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The King's yearly broadcast, which airs on Christmas Day in England, has served as a tradition for both the reigning monarch and families across the country since the 1930s.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Phase three has yearly operation and maintenance costs as well, and when included with phase two, bring the rest of the plan’s costs to about $720.5 million.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The precision to detail took this yearly event from amazing to awe inspiring.
    Dl Phillips, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Today, money-market funds are the answer to the question of where to put your money that is safe—and that also gives investors yields in the vicinity of 4% to 5% yearly.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That didn't go over well with legacy Reddit clients, like Apollo, which was forced to shut down over a potential $20 million yearly bill.
    Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Managers can also earn up to 200% of their pay as yearly bonuses, based on their stores' profits and sales, according to the retailer.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Last month, gas prices hit new yearly highs, as oil prices pushed past $92 a barrel amid supply cuts and catastrophic flooding in Libya.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This marks the second year in a row that, as the Antarctic summer wears on and the Southern Ocean’s blanket of sea ice shrinks to its yearly minimum extent, a record low has been recorded.
    Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The tax also spurred households to spend 5% more time, or about an hour more per week, preparing meals, but the changes that people made reduced their yearly grocery bills by about $170.
    Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
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yearly

2 of 2 adverb
  • The rodeo has over 700 entries yearly in all age groups.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The alliance will give youth who trained in Fresh Films’ yearly training program the chance to work on the set of Lifetime movies.
    Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2022
  • Although the antlers fall off yearly, the pedicles remain — and continue to serve as the base for new antlers to grow.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Derby has continued to evolve yearly, but the three-round format has remained the same.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
  • The reports are produced yearly, as mandated by the EPA.
    Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • She’s now settled in and renews her elective visa yearly.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The awards are held yearly to honor the best independent films and television series from the past year.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Car lovers brought their smiling kids, their tail-wagging dogs and zoom-lens cameras to take in the Exotics on Las Olas auto show, a yearly hit with the chrome and steel crowd.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Plastic weighing as much as the Eiffel Tower pollutes the Great Lakes yearly.
    USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • People should be assessed for those factors every three to five years in stage 0, every two to three years in stage 1, and yearly in stage 2 and beyond, the guidelines say.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Last year, National City flew the rainbow flag for the first time and will do so yearly in the same month after council members agreed to include it in its list of flags to raise at its buildings.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • Switching to a 4-2-5 defensive scheme means the Buckeyes can take fewer linebackers yearly.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Abbott compares the church’s donation — about equal to the amount used yearly on all golf courses in the Great Salt Lake watershed — to a drop of water in a bucket, albeit a large one.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Knowing which services are covered by a plan can be confusing since that can change yearly, Tipirneni said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
  • China and the United States are the world’s two highest-contributing countries to greenhouse gas emissions yearly.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2023
  • The images were devastating, all the more since Hawaii was a cherished place for Harris and her husband, Dave, who visited yearly.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Although the Pfaff driver lineup has changed yearly, most of the rest of the team has been stable and that helps to explain the consistent high level of performance, Bortolotti said.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
  • One woman has traveled to the island 27 times, and several families come back yearly.
    Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Passes range from $5 for senior residents to $60 for adult non-residents and range from yearly to monthly.
    Hunter Boyce, ajc, 26 May 2022
  • The day changes yearly because it is set using the Islamic calendar, which follows the lunar cycle.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2023
  • A decade later, scientists licensed a vaccine for the measles virus, which was still sickening tens of thousands yearly and killing hundreds.
    New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • Thanks to a mild climate and a sprawling irrigation network across the 1.7-square-mile island, farmers here harvest four times yearly.
    Diane Daniel, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • After reaching $18 an hour, the minimum wage will be adjusted yearly to keep pace with the cost of living, according to the initiative.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The spring equinox shifts yearly and typically lands on or around March 20, according to the National Weather Service.
    Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Be ready to refresh this layer with 2 inches or so of fresh mulch yearly as the organic matter decomposes.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Since there are many flu viruses that constantly change, the makeup of US flu vaccines is reviewed yearly and updated as needed.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The hope is that better matching the vaccine booster to the circulating strain will afford people more durable protection and lead to yearly, rather than more frequent, shots.
    Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This wide gap between the satisfaction of parents and all Americans has been consistent since 1999 when Gallup first began to ask the question yearly.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • It is suggested to change them frequently (quarterly, or at least yearly).
    Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Those deduction caps are increased yearly to keep pace with inflation.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2023

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