Example Sentences

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Our system affords us, thank goodness, a chance to change national direction every two years, and presidential leadership quadrennially.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021

Winner of last year’s Gilmore Artist Award, given quadrennially to a pianist along with a $300,000 prize, Levit is among the most probing young artists in classical music.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2019

The candidates viewed Saturday night’s debate, held here on the small campus of Saint Anselm College that has quadrennially hosted presidential debates going back decades, as their most urgent of their eight debates so far.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2016

He quadrennially skips the opening parade to save his legs from the speeches and his head from the pigeons, but partakes in all the casual camaraderie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Legislature and State officers elected quadrennially; members Congress, biennially.

From Alden's Handy Atlas of the World by Alden, John B.