How to Use periodical in a Sentence

periodical

1 of 2 adjective
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  • There are lots of species of cicadas in the world but there are not many periodical cicadas species ...
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • For some of the periodical cicadas of Brood X, there’s no need to imagine.
    — Chrystelle L. Vilfranc, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2021
  • Launched four years later, his periodical sought to build that bulwark in prose and verse.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • This spring’s emergence of periodical cicadas in the eastern U.S. will make more than a buzz.
    — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The first time Weiss saw periodical cicadas was in 2004.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • This group of periodical cicadas, called Brood X, have been feeding on sap from roots of plants underground for the last 17 years.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 18 May 2021
  • But periodical cicadas that emerge en masse once every 17 or 13 years are unique to the eastern U.S.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • The New York Review is a periodical devoted to the proper and best use of language.
    — Michael Pollan, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
  • There are more than 3,000 species of cicadas, but the bugs that make the headlines are periodical cicadas, who take an all-or-nothing approach to life.
    — Meg Muckenhoupt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
  • That includes a fungus that has been seen on these periodical cicadas, which can affect the bugs but not the snackers.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • The rise of the Brood X periodical cicadas — those loud, large, kind-of-scary-looking insects that come out every 17 years — has began in Louisville.
    — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 19 May 2021
  • Did last year’s periodical cicadas get all up in your face?
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Connecticut will miss out on the emergence this spring in much of the eastern U.S. of a crawling, clamorous biomass of billions — the 17-year periodical cicadas of Brood X.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • After 17 years in waiting, billions of periodical cicadas are set to emerge from the ground en masse next month and blanket a large portion of the eastern United States.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2021
  • His student Matthew Campbell found that the periodical cicadas have at least 20.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
  • But Washington must issue periodical waivers to keep the penalties from snapping back into place and the most recent one was set to expire this week.
    — Josh Lederman, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • This newsletter is free, but a subscription to The New Yorker supports it—and gets you access to the finest periodical writing in the English language.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • People across Greater Cincinnati are seeing the periodical insects emerge from the ground after 17 years.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 20 May 2021
  • Call it out to current and prospective clients in your list by featuring it in a special announcement or your next periodical email.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But now, a real-life insect invasion of what are called periodical cicadas will put Hollywood to shame by its sheer size and scope.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • Almost every year somewhere in the country, a periodical brood will emerge.
    — Brian Whipkey, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • AZ Animals says the periodical cicadas that have made a buzz on news outlets are from North America.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The periodical insects, also known as Brood X, spend most of their lives underground feeding on tree roots before tunneling to the surface to look for mates.
    — NBC News, 9 June 2021
  • In the most concentrated areas during the emergence of Brood X, there were as many as 1 million periodical cicadas per acre.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • When the periodical cicadas begin to arrive in May in the Mid-Atlantic, one thing will be different from their parents’ appearance in 2004.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The swarms of red-eyed bugs that are soon to be buzzing through the air in parts of the U.S. have some enthralled, some intrigued, some disgusted and some terrified — but everyone can help better understand the periodical creatures.
    — Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The periodical critters make their aboveground, clockwork-like debut for only a few weeks to mate before dying.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
  • After 17 years underground, billions of Brood X periodical cicadas, as the insects are known, are emerging into the light across the eastern U.S. this year to find mates and launch the next generation.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 27 May 2021
  • The periodical forecasts below-average temperatures with lots of snowstorms, sleet, ice and rain throughout the Great Lakes and Midwest.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the highest total ever measured for sales of periodical comics, graphic novels and digital comics, with just about every segment of the market showing enormous growth.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 5 July 2022
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periodical

2 of 2 noun
  • The library has a large collection of scholarly periodicals.
  • Cole wrote in an 1896 issue of the periodical The Woman’s Era.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
  • Vanity Fair is a pop culture periodical that in the past has been known to go for the biggest name.
    — refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • One who kept stacks of such periodicals was New Yorker Patrick Parrish, who has traded in these pieces since the early 2000s.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • Or that Horace Greeley published a periodical called the New-Yorker in the 1830s?
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The phrase comes from an interview Neel gave to the communist periodical the Daily Worker in 1950.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Founded in 1951 for those who grout tile and hang cabinets, the periodical was no match for Prince Harry’s memoir or a Stephen King novel.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • At the time of its initial publication in the late 1960s, the periodical became a beacon for techno-optimists and back-to-the-land hippies.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Much remains unknown about the creature, like why the periodical cicadas emerge on 13 or 17 year cycles.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2020
  • Walt Disney worked on the railroad briefly in 1916 as a teenager in the Midwest selling snacks, tobacco and periodicals.
    — latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • The van has been stuffed willy-nilly with two copies each of some 3000 periodicals printed recently in France that are being sent to the library for preservation.
    — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
  • From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The delivery standard for first-class mail and periodicals increased from a maximum of three days to a maximum of five.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The insects popping up in the foothills are among seven species of periodical cicadas, which emerge in eastern North America in 13- or 17-year cycles.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2017
  • Gold open access refers to periodicals in which all content is freely available once published.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There are many who argue, in the pages of this country’s most respected periodicals, that this power lies with the intolerant left.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Today the brothers announced that the title of their periodical is... Reveal!
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Many of the works in the collection were created with the intent to be reproduced in newspapers, books and other periodicals, conveying events of the day.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • See if your library supports the OverDrive app and tap into free access of audiobooks, ebooks, videos and periodicals.
    — Jen Leo, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • Scientists think this could be due to climate change; more warm weeks in each year gives the underground larvae more time to grow, which could lead to periodical cicadas emerging early.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2020
  • At the turn of the century, the Post Office delivered letters and periodicals all across America.
    — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The room's reference collection has 2,000 books and periodicals on the history, structure and production of books and book arts.
    — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 15 June 2018
  • The glitz and glamor of his periodicals contrasted with his own reticent, spotlight-averse style.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Ogden wrote seven books of poetry and his work appeared in more than 300 periodicals.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Now, the new restaurant is open all day, beneath its same iconic awning, and ready to satisfy cravings for periodicals and piña colada pancakes.
    — Adam Robb, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2023
  • The project itself came out of a frustration with walking into a store on Varick and being confronted by corn snacks instead of periodicals, and wishing there was more out there.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
  • That's not entirely true this time around — the Playboy piece comes from outside that time period — but is Annual intended as a one-off or a periodical of sorts?
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
  • There are rows of books and periodicals are joined by child-friendly play areas, cushy seating, community meeting spaces, and so much more.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The paper’s loyal base of subscribers—which totals 3,600 at the moment—is responsible for keeping the beloved periodical afloat.
    — Southern Living, 4 May 2018
  • One hears that the Digest naively included a tear-out postcard in one of its monthly issues so that only subscribers to this snooty periodical could express their opinion.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019

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