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How to use periodical in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, adjective

Periodical means a publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily. Example: “Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.”

Examples of periodical by meaning

adjectivePeriodic.

  • Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America.2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19...

More sentences with periodical

  • Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.From the entry antislavery
  • Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97. From the entry pseudogothic
  • The lessees of public lands had to pay a perpetual rent or "canon" at some periodical time.1919 January, Charles P. Sherman, “A Brief History of Imperial Roman Canon Law”, in California Law Review, volume 7, number 2, Berkeley…. From the entry canon
  • In printed periodicals, the use of figurines is recommended.2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21. From the entry dutch
  • He even published a periodical with that title.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry siderism
  • Second banana Dan Quayle’s tongue tangles were so numerous that they spawned an actual periodical that anthologized his Quaylisms.2000, Richard Lederer, “[A Pleasury of Bloopers] Politicians Incorrect”, in The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonus of Bloopers, Blunders…. From the entry Quaylism
  • The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 6. From the entry tracker
  • An emergence is when a throng of periodical cicadas rises from the ground as soon as the soil reaches about 64 degrees Fahrenheit.2013 May 3, Megan Buerger, “Bugged by Cicada Swarm? Don't Be”, in Wall Street Journal. From the entry periodical cicada
  • The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.2009 January 24, Anne Karpf, The Guardian. From the entry captious
  • Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild.2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the Rose. From the entry microscript
  • What is arresting in the periodical is the primitivistic, prerational, antitechnological, and anticivilizational cult that lies at the core of its articles.1995, Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry anticivilizational
  • We were the first paper to involve large numbers of gay men and lesbians: today, we remain the only truly mixed periodical in our community.1983 April 9, The Sustainer Committee, “Sustain GCN”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry mixed
  • Even the reduction of periodical names to this bare univerbalism, however, does not mean that the fundamental principles of poetics have been abandoned.1967, Roman Jakobson, To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. From the entry univerbalism
  • The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.1960 April, A. W. Bennett, “A Locomotive Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 272. From the entry stop
  • Chart 1 shows the change in the periodicals' attitude toward Homonism from a very negative appraisal in the mid-nineteenth century to a moderately favorable viewpoint in the mid-twentieth century.1961, Richard Olsen Cowan, Mormonism in National Periodicals, Stanford University, page 203. From the entry homonism
  • While usually no more than a conservative, large-scale player, every so often, like a periodical drinker, he had to go on a rampage of wild enduring stock-gambling.[1920, Jack London, chapter XXVIII, in Hearts of Three, page 351. From the entry wolf of Wall Street
  • One librarian said, "I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers."1975, Sarah Katharine Thomson, Learning resource centers in community colleges. From the entry disservice

Meaning of periodical

  1. noun A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.
  2. noun A regularly issued thematic publication that contains the most current information in its field, often the primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in its field.
  3. adjective Periodic.

Full definition of periodical

Questions about periodical in a sentence

How do you use periodical in a sentence?
Periodical is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.”
What is a short sentence with periodical?
“He even published a periodical with that title.”
What does periodical mean?
Periodical means a publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: periodical (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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