How to Use of the year in a Sentence

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  • What’s better than a bright yellow-green shoulder bag at the hottest tennis event of the year?
    — Jordyn Burrell, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2024
  • This Spike Lee comedy-drama is set in Bed-Stuy on the hottest day of the year.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The rest of the year, the department does weekly drive-throughs to check the tunnel for disrepair, sediment buildup and debris like rocks, trees and trash.
    — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
  • While industry experts predicted a slowdown in insurance price hikes, data from the first half of the year shows a 15% increase in full-coverage premiums.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • And then there’s the top award, for program of the year.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • Here's what to know: What was the hottest day of the year in Cincinnati in 2023?
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The economy grew at a 1.4% rate in the first three months of the year.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Braun spent $6 million alone in just the first three months of the year.
    — Brandon Smith, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • Culinary Masters 2024 Don’t miss the food event of the year.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Culinary Masters 2023 Don’t miss the food event of the year.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
  • These are all the 2024 colors of the year that have been announced so far.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Last week, the song won Shakira a Latin Grammy for song of the year.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Jessie James Decker is spending the end of the year with her bump out on the beach.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
  • If the fund does well, journalists get a slice of the firm’s profits at the end of the year.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • At the end of the year, only 12 percent of the group had stuck with their program.
    — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The Fever just so happened to have faced Stewart on two of her best days of the year.
    — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The summer solstice is the day with the longest daylight hours of the year.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 June 2024
  • And the average days homes stay on the market have been less than a month for most of the year.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • On the western coast of South Africa, the landscape is arid for most of the year, and the threat of drought is ever present.
    — Greta Rybus, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
  • Overall, May has been the wettest month of the year and February the driest.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2024
  • By the end of the year, Walker had outplayed Nijman and won the job.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There are roughly 15 hours of daylight on the solstice, the longest day of the year.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2024
  • Maluma nabbed four awards, including pop male artist of the year.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nearly half of them were reported in the final three months of the year, the group said.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • With this momentum, it’s poised to land one of the biggest debuts of the year.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Amazon’s two-day shopping event is the perfect time to snag some of the year’s best deals.
    — Amy Stanford, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • North American rail traffic is down 3.1% for the first 46 weeks of the year, AAR says.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The original sold 9 million copies in the U.S. and earned a Grammy for album of the year.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • All of these varieties will start blooming around this time of the year.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 8 July 2023
  • Come the end of 2024, this will probably still stand as one of my favorite covers of the year.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024

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