What is "semiannual"

Usage examples of "semiannual".

And yet, how many of us have at this very moment a peau de chagrin of our own, diminishing with every costly wish indulged, and incapable, like the magical one of the story, of being arrested in its progress Need I say that I refer to those coupon bonds, issued in the days of eight and ten per cent interest, and gradually narrowing as they drop their semiannual slips of paper, which represent wishes to be realized, as the roses let fall their leaves in July, as the icicles melt away in the thaw of January?

Confederation Army required all combat units to submit semiannual readiness reports to their higher headquarters, and periodically inspection teams visited every unit with a check-list, to verify readiness independently.

Although the health inspector condemns it on a semiannual basis, it still houses the English department and two floors of damp, cold classrooms.

She had bought it during the semiannual underwear and foundation sale at a major downtown department store.

Amaryllis decided that she and Vivien did not shop at the same semiannual underwear and foundation sales.

The other volumes were similar: semiannual inventories, ending in 1942.

It was Karnival, the semiannual festival held on the Friday before classes started on Monday.

My semiannual visit to the dentist is as masochistic as I care to get.

Even in the days before the invasion, horses had never been taken farther than the semiannual fairs at Linna.