annually

[ an-yoo-uh-lee ]

adverb

1. once a year; each year:

   The school’s Harvest Dance has been held annually, on the first Saturday of October, for more than 125 years.

Word History and Origins

Origin of annually¹

First recorded in 1580–1600; annual ( def ) + -ly ( def )

Example Sentences

Hence the three-day Acadia Birding Festival, held annually in early June.

From Outside Online

As we enter December, annually, Pantone reveals the color of the year.

From Essence.com

It converts 440,000 tons of garbage annually to power 150,000 homes.

From Popular-Science

Between 1924 and 1928, the application says, the complex annually processed up to 190,000 hogs and 20,000 cattle.

From Washington Post

In August, Sinovac announced that a new production plant in Beijing could produce 300 million doses annually.

From Fortune

Emails leaked by the GOP revealed that of the 17 Sony execs making $1 million or more annually, only one is a woman.

From The Daily Beast

The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually.

From The Daily Beast

The difference is nonetheless drastic: $220,119 and $44,453, respectively, on average per person annually.

From The Daily Beast

The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.

From The Daily Beast

According to The Times, most jobs now pay less than $20 per hour, i.e., less than $40,000 annually.

From The Daily Beast

Ever since his majority Lord Hetton had annually entered a colt in the great race.

From Project Gutenberg

He annually has a gathering of distinguished farmers and others to inspect his estate and see how his "book farming" gets on.

From Project Gutenberg

About 350 tons of the acid, which is used in some dying processes, &c., is sent out annually.

From Project Gutenberg

The camping-out at Streetly Wood has annually recurred since that date; the first sham fight took place June 20, 1877.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• each year
• every year