How to Use quadrennial in a Sentence

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• The Dragons hadn’t made it to the quadrennial dance since 1958 when they were knocked out by Brazil and a teenaged Pele.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• Big changes are coming to the U.S. team for the next quadrennial, both on the ice and off, but the final day of the Pyeongchang Olympics showed hope for the future.
  — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Brubaker is the second Alaskan to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games, a quadrennial event first held in 2012.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• Still, other host cities have faced censure for the high cost of the quadrennial spectacle, in the face of more dire social needs.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Even those playing a level or three below the World Cup find this the best part of the quadrennial period.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• This year marks the first timethe quadrennial tournament is held in the winter instead of over the summer.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
• A few weeks later, the Olympics would postpone their quadrennial games.
  — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2021
• The quadrennial passing of the torch has begun for the third time, this time with Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the sidelines.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• Amp will premiere the show live from Qatar, which is hosting the quadrennial soccer tourney, on Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. PT.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• In a sport so geared to the quadrennial event, athletes train in cycles and with different agendas.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
• And there is, inevitably, the quadrennial reminder that more binds us together than tears us apart.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2020
• Back when the Olympics dominated the news media, U.S. women figure skaters often were the faces of the quadrennial events, known by their first names.
  — Sally Bronston, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2018
• Those quadrennial contests were when voters thought about the big picture: things like the economy and war.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• But for many, the focus was elsewhere, and more specifically, how the process of bidding for and hosting the quadrennial games can be better for cities.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2018
• At least half a million visitors from all over the world will visit Russia to attend the quadrennial event.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2018
• But the Americans certainly didn’t land the softest group for the quadrennial spectacle, which runs from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• In 2014, the quadrennial review by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service laid out four scenarios for how the fire landscape might look in a decade or so.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• There are still four days left in the quadrennial competition, so Moon’s ebullience might be a bit premature.
  — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• This time around, though, World Cup allegiance has been made simpler here by the United States team’s absence from the quadrennial soccer showpiece.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
• The quadrennial men’s soccer tournament will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries, and Orlando is in the mix to be one of the venues.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• While this quadrennial tradition in New Hampshire usually follows the script, there’s a chance for some curveballs this time around.
  — Fox News, 30 Oct. 2019
• The decision comes after a burst of pitches from across the country to land the quadrennial event that had been originally scheduled for Charlotte, N.C.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 11 June 2020
• The quadrennial World Cup, which kicks off Thursday in Russia, with 32 teams competing in the monthlong tournament.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• That soccer’s quadrennial showpiece will take place without a player of that skill, that value, dulls its luster just a little.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Those are the questions for every competitor at this quadrennial kickaround.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Soccer’s quadrennial celebration — the World Cup — is one of the most popular sporting events on the planet.
  — Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• The groups have been discussing the creation of a biennial world league for national teams as well as a quadrennial tournament for 24 clubs similar to the World Cup.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 May 2018
• With or without major leaguers, Fraccari said his long-term goal is to make baseball and softball — a package deal for the Olympics — a staple in the quadrennial sports festival.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• Some, such as Euro 2020, a quadrennial football tournament, have retained the same name.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2020
• The quadrennial presidential contest is enshrined in the Constitution, and any change in the date would require an act of Congress.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 30 July 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024