How to Use leap year in a Sentence

leap year

noun
  • Here are some quick thing to know about the leap year in 2024.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But there’s a problem—the year 2100 will not be a leap year.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The next time a leap year will be skipped is in 2100, Craddock said.
    Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In the world of horology, the leap year holds an even more special place.
    Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But a few flakes fell on Saturday, the extra day of a leap year.
    Azi Paybarah, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Byrne will ring in the leap year with his performance on Feb. 29, and The Weeknd will follow on March 7.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2020
  • One of those goals was to acquire 366 pairs of Crocs, one for each day of the year, including leap years.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The 366 brief passages—including one for leap years—came straight from the King James Bible.
    John J. Miller, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • And don’t forget that leap year that added a day to conduct business, too.
    Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • This year is a leap year, which means February 2020 will have an extra day.
    Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In honor of leap year: a whole bunch of sea creatures leapingDirty pictures from space.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2012
  • Normally, the 28th day of February ends the month, and were this not a leap year, Saturday would have been March 1.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2020
  • His leap year has become a job interview, but Jones is no stranger to taking the hard road to leading a huddle.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The earlier-than-usual spring is the result of leap years and the subtle impacts that the extra days have on the timing of Earth’s orbits.
    NBC News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • But this leap year, the heavens have misaligned and robbed St. Patrick’s Day revelers of the first chance in six years to paint the town green on a Saturday because of the leap year.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
  • What to do: To avoid potential problems with leap year payroll, know when that bonus day is coming up.
    Mike Kappel, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Its functions include our, minute, second, second stop, day of the week, month and leap year display, moon phase, and Panorama Date.
    Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • But unlike leap years, leap seconds are not predictable in advance.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Goodin called me at The Courier Journal with her leap year birthstory in the weeks leading up to Brohm's first true birthday in four years.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Learn more: Breaking down the science and history behind leap year.
    USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This year's data includes an extra day in February due to leap year.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the Northern Hemisphere, the autumnal equinox falls around Sept. 22 which can sometimes fluctuate by a couple of days due to leap years.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Many cultures do not think of a leap year as particularly lucky.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Seven of them are tied to non-leap years, with January 1 falling on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and so forth.
    Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 13 Apr. 2018
  • One tangible impact of a leap year is that birthdays will fall on a different day of the week than their usual pattern.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This rarely happens outside of leap years, as lunar cycles largely take 29 days to complete.
    Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • So every year that is exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, in which a 29th day is added to February.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • This is leap year for The Grove’s butterfly garden by Glenview Gardeners.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
  • This fall, college football will enjoy its version of a leap year—except 14 weeks of football is a hell of a lot better than 29 days of February.
    Joan Niesen, SI.com, 6 June 2019
  • Gold applied hour markers with luminescent coating top the dial next to day, date, month, leap year, and 24-hour displays.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023

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