How to Use Gregorian calendar in a Sentence

Gregorian calendar

noun

• On March 16 of the Gregorian calendar, the sun would touch Mount Tlaloc for the first time, marking the beginning of the dry spring that precedes the rainy season.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• Since a Martian year is 687 Earth days, the date shifts around our current Gregorian calendar.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
• The Hijri calendar is based on lunar cycles, whereas the Gregorian calendar is based on the movement of the Earth around the sun.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
• In 1582, France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
• On the Gregorian calendar, for example, the first month of January always takes place in the same season of winter.
  — Manal Aman, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
• Because the lunar year is shorter than the Gregorian calendar, the exact dates shift up several days each year.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• As well as inserting a leap day every four days, the Gregorian calendar skips three leap days every four centuries.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Who bobbled their departmental duties, back when the Gregorian calendar was drawn up, and gave us a full week of school this year before the winter break started?
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• Ramadan, on the other hand, is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, which is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar and so lands on different seasons over the years.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Unlike the solar Gregorian calendar, this new year is partially based on the lunar calendar, in which each month signals a new moon phase.
  — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Its date changes every year on the solar Gregorian calendar.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
• Welcome to Leap Day, that odd quadrennial occurrence that lets the Gregorian calendar catch up with the Earth’s orbit.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Because of this odd coincidence—that day of all leap-year days—and the peculiarities of the Gregorian calendar, we’re left with a sort of phantom anniversary.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• That year, France changed its calendar system from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• The date of Passover changes every year since Jewish holidays rely on a lunar calendar, not the Gregorian calendar.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 5 Apr. 2023
• The oddities of the Gregorian calendar allowed Urbatsch to compare turnout when elections occur two days after the Standard Time changeover (that is, most years) to turnout when elections occur five days before (this year, but not most years).
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Ever since the advent of the Gregorian calendar, human memory has been catalogued by years.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 12 Mar. 2021
• Because the Jewish calendar isn’t the same length as the solar year on the Gregorian calendar (the calendar most widely used today), Passover and other Jewish holidays shift every year.
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 12 Mar. 2023
• According to the Gregorian calendar, these particular years will not be considered leap years, hence the need for adjustment.
  — Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bin Salman’s efforts extend beyond cars, with recent moves like adopting the Gregorian calendar, hailed as business-friendly.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Although many Saudis solely use the Islamic calendar, toggling to the English option will switch to the Gregorian calendar.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• But Orthodox Christians are using the old calendar, or the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar, which a pope introduced in 1582.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• When the Julian calendar was later refined into the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of adding a leap day to February persisted.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2024
• The academy, skipped 1933 to rectify its calendar, the way countries switched from the awkward Julian calendar to the more accurate Gregorian calendar.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• The religious holiday begins 10 to 12 days earlier each year since the Muslim calendar is shorter than the modern-day Gregorian calendar.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• The Gregorian calendar, which is the international standard used for societal and scientific purposes, marks this passage of time—one year—as 365 days.
  — Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 12 June 2023
• Given that the Hebrew calendar is more than a week shorter than the Gregorian calendar and, according to tradition, originated with the biblical creation of the universe, this holiday will mark the beginning of the year 5781 for Jews worldwide.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Leap Days themselves, meanwhile, have actually been tacked onto every fourth February ever since the Gregorian calendar was reformed in 1582.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• Because Jewish holidays are scheduled according to a lunar calendar, for those following the Gregorian calendar, these holidays can seem to float throughout their seasons.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• That anniversary is generally marked on May 15, the day after Israel’s declaration of independence according to the Gregorian calendar.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024