How to Use bicentennial in a Sentence

bicentennial

noun
  • Martin said after the bicentennial, the items will then be added to the city's archives.
    — Forrest Sellers, Cincinnati.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This year's theme is for Lafayette's bicentennial.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
  • For those old enough to do so, think back to the nation’s bicentennial in 1976.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • About 200 years later, a recreation of it opened just in time for the bicentennial.
    — Juliet Izon, Country Living, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The City of Trussville this month has the first of six events this year to celebrate the city’s bicentennial.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 11 Jan. 2020
  • But the bicentennial took place at a time when the moment of maximum danger for the republic seemed to have passed.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • But things weren’t so great heading into the bicentennial either.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Maine’s bicentennial was last year, but events were moved to this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
  • Cheviot's bicentennial is the theme of this year's Harvest Home Fair.
    — Justin Reutter, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • Few will feel the urge to spray confetti in this year of the bicentennial of the 1819 panic.
    — James Grant, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2019
  • This is a subject that is understood far better than at the bicentennial, 50 years ago.
    — Time, 10 Dec. 2025
  • So there was plenty of buzz surrounding the bicentennial.
    — ABC News, 13 June 2026
  • Interest in the old flag began to rise around the time of the state’s bicentennial in 2020.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
  • For many, the lasting image of the bicentennial was the arrival of the Tall Ships in ports up and down the eastern seaboard.
    — John Garrison Marks, Smithsonian, 3 July 2018
  • Notably, the Army did not hold a parade for its bicentennial in 1975.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
  • It’s completely festooned in red, white and blue to celebrate the bicentennial.
    — Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The last time the Independent Man came down was ahead of the nation’s bicentennial.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The replica of the Nao Santa Maria was scheduled to tour multiple ports in the state to mark the bicentennial.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
  • For those of us who remember the bicentennial, the semiquincentennial is a complete and utter dud.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, the last local team to win a championship was the 1963 Bears.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Church’s bicentennial offers a chance to reconsider our prolonged indifference to the man and his art.
    — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • The event is among a number of activities planned in the coming months as the city prepares for its bicentennial in 2018.
    — Forrest Sellers, Cincinnati.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The goal of the bicentennial is to inspire, elevate and connect, according to co-chair Kim Heiman.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The park is one of 12 landscapes designed by Olmsted and his descendants that make up the group’s list this year, the bicentennial of his birth.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The bicentennial of the battle had drawn more pilgrims than usual, and Maratha leaders declared a strike to shut down the town and the visitors with nothing to eat or drink.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The original cabin no longer exists, but about the time of the nation’s bicentennial, a replica was built as a memorial to the Cahoons.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 July 2020
  • Her father worked with Black churches in the area to commemorate the deed of gift's bicentennial in 1991.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 5 Sep. 2021
  • These days, Kruse and the rest of the village are getting ready for its bicentennial on the weekend of July 23 - 25.
    — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
  • The statue was one of a number of replicas displayed around the city in 2018 in honor of the bicentennial of Douglass's birth.
    — Scottie Andrew and Anna Sturla, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • For her, the bicentennial brings to mind her fifth-grade summer, when the Freedom Train, a mobile museum on rails, stopped in Oakland.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

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