How to Use yearlong in a Sentence

yearlong

adjective

• She went on a yearlong sabbatical.
• To that end, the Fed stopped its yearlong effort to shrink its balance sheet as of last month.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• 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
• She was born in Bremen and came to the United States for a yearlong adventure in the 1960s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• When Floyd was killed, Curington was in the midst of a yearlong writer’s block.
  — Tyler Hicks, Dallas News, 22 June 2020
• Hayabusa2 is to start its yearlong return trip to Earth later this year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• The series jumped to ABC in 2018 after a yearlong hiatus.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], 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 split screen epitomized her yearlong high-wire act.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 12 Dec. 2022
• The number of cases had been dropping in the yearlong outbreak which has killed more than 2,100 people.
  — Fox News, 28 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Still, this new attack is an escalation in DeSantis’s bizarre, yearlong war with Disney World.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• In early December 2021, the Ethiopian government pulled off a dramatic reversal in its yearlong civil war with rebels from the Tigray region.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025