Sample Sentences for
biennial
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biennial as in:  6 biennial meetings a year

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We see each other at biennial conventions.
biennial = occurring once every two years
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    Therefore, biennial elections will secure the liberty that depends on a connection between representatives and the people.  (source)
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    We will consider two questions: Will biennial elections be safe?†  (source)
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    Does their behavior give us any reason to think that biennial elections are dangerous to liberty?†  (source)
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    This proves that biennial elections will not endanger liberty.†  (source)
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    Number 53: Biennial Elections Safe, Promote Quality†  (source)
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    Several reasons show that biennial elections are necessary and useful.†  (source)
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    Biennial elections will be useful for handling public affairs and safe to the liberty.†  (source)
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    Remember the discussion about biennial elections.†  (source)
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    Are biennial elections necessary?†  (source)
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    Constitutionally mandated biennial elections will keep the liberties of the American people more secure than annual elections in other nations.†  (source)
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    with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servants' apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of 2 pounds, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus (1 pound) and retiring allowance (based on the 65 system) after 30 years' service), pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner (evening dress), carbon monoxide gas supply throughout.†  (source)
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    The second question stated is, whether biennial elections be necessary or useful.  (source)
    biennial = occurring once every two years
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    In South Carolina they are biennial as is proposed in the federal government.†  (source)
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biennial as in:  planted biennials

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Many biennials reseed themselves.
biennials = plants that live two years
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    All through the house there were seed packets and Xeroxed pictures of perennials and biennials and alpines and annuals and roses in every color you could imagine.  (source)
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    —for the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far from the ground, and are not treated like the humbler esculents, which, though they may be biennials, are cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut down at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering season.†  (source)
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