How to Use decennial in a Sentence

decennial

adjective
  • And a map was passed, and it was done at the end of the census, the decennial census.
    — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The redistricting process — which is meant to be a decennial process — will drag on past this midterm.
    — Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • These years in the decennial pattern have tended to be the strongest.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • States redraw their legislative maps every ten years to keep up with the decennial census.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • During the days of the Raj, the decennial censuses gave it a new contour.
    — Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
  • What’s unique about the decennial census in the United States?
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • This month is especially weak at this point in the election year cycle and in the decennial cycle.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • But as its name suggests, the decennial census is conducted every ten years.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That question hasn't been asked in a decennial census since 1950.
    — George Skelton, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Roughly three dozen works stemming from the decennial remain on permanent view throughout the city.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s little to no hope that red states are going to lay down their political arms before the next decennial line-drawing.
    — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The state lost a congressional seat in the previous decennial census as well.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The administration had sought to add the question to the decennial census form.
    — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
  • This is the first decennial census in which most participants are being encouraged to fill out the form online.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The trial is to prepare for the next decennial census in March 2020.
    — Youyou Zhou, Quartz Africa, 18 June 2019
  • The relationship data the decennial census collects can be used in a number of ways, the spokesperson added.
    — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, the decennial census population counts aren’t perfect even in an ordinary year — and last year was anything but.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
  • House seats normally are redrawn only at the beginning of a decade after the decennial census.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • States usually redistrict at the start of the decade following the decennial census.
    — NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
  • At the time, Congress recognized a need for more regular data than a decennial census could provide.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The Census Bureau is due to release the first detailed results of the decennial count in mid-August.
    — WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The base for each year's estimates is the previous year's estimate, with the starting point for the decade's estimates the decennial census count.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • The decennial pattern, for example, was identified with decades of hindsight, and drops of 10% or more aren’t all that uncommon.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The board is tasked with the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative boundaries in Arkansas after the decennial census.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
  • When Bouk was doing his research, 1940 was the most recent decennial census for which full data was available.
    — Karen Sandstrom, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The Time Pyramid in Bavaria, Germany will add its fourth decennial block in 2023.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2020
  • The best time to do it would be before the next redistricting cycle, which is supposed to be in 2032, after the next decennial census.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • The best time to do it would be before the next redistricting cycle, which is supposed to be in 2032, after the next decennial census.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
  • The general practice is to redistrict after the decennial census.
    — Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Edgar Laurence Smith described the decennial pattern in the 1930s.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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