How to Use yearlong in a Sentence

yearlong

adjective
  • She went on a yearlong sabbatical.
  • Against all odds, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to go on after a yearlong delay.
    Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 10 May 2021
  • Kevin Durant, who left the West a year ago, is back from a yearlong injury.
    J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2020
  • When Floyd was killed, Curington was in the midst of a yearlong writer’s block.
    Tyler Hicks, Dallas News, 22 June 2020
  • The series jumped to ABC in 2018 after a yearlong hiatus.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Below is a timeline of the nation’s yearlong journey, as told through the words of Pelosi and McCarthy.
    Arit John, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The goal: to take a snapshot of what the industry looks like after its yearlong fight to stay in business.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 29 May 2021
  • No other country has lost more lives to the yearlong pandemic than the U.S.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The filings were the latest salvo in the nearly yearlong fight over the tax records between Trump and Vance, a Democrat.
    Benjamin Weiser, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Life seemed sure to be smaller and stagnant, like a yearlong winter without the snow or ice.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, National Geographic, 30 June 2020
  • The list is a yearlong process involving a process that Bensch likened to the Academy Awards.
    Giulia Heyward and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • But her English was the best in the office, thanks to a yearlong internship with a literary agent in New York.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But the animals have been photographed more than 10 times during the yearlong study.
    AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Becker served a yearlong tour of duty in Vietnam in 1970.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The title comes with scholarship money and a yearlong reign.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The rebound follows a yearlong slump in EV sales that lasted until the summer.
    Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • These performances mark the completion of a yearlong program for the artists.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • First came a yearlong search for the right venue followed by construction delays.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The two misdemeanor charges are punishable by a yearlong prison sentence and a $2,000 fine.
    John Suayan, Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2020
  • When the full commission met the next month, the six-month license was overturned and Los Alamitos was granted a yearlong license on a 4-3 vote.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Limbaugh died at his Palm Beach home at the age of 70 on Wednesday, after a yearlong battle with lung cancer.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2021
  • These partners went through a yearlong application process to be part of the project and learned late last month they had been selected.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2022
  • New leases with concessions, like one or two months of rent knocked off a yearlong lease, dropped from 41% a year ago to just 20% in February.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The yearlong transition period ended at the end of the day Wednesday.
    Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Even the yearlong postponement of the Tokyo Games carried a quiet benefit.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • Two others who worked for him and a businessman also have been charged in the yearlong probe by Michigan State Police.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2020
  • My mom’s been my front-seat passenger through my yearlong journey to divorce.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Jan. 2023
  • On the other side of the spectrum is the Champions League, which pits all the top English and European teams against each other in a yearlong battle royale.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Still, this new attack is an escalation in DeSantis’s bizarre, yearlong war with Disney World.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Bruce White, founder and chairman of White Lodging, died after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer, according to a release issued by the company Friday.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023

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