How to Use lunisolar in a Sentence

lunisolar

adjective
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  • The first day of Hanukkah is always on the 25th day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar which is lunisolar — based on the movements of the sun and moon.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Lantern Festival marks the end of the holiday and first full moon of the lunisolar calendar.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Lunar New Year is the celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of the new year on the lunisolar calendar.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The first day of this Chinese New Year, based on the lunisolar calendar, was Saturday.
    — Tomoya Shimura, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The dates are calculated via the lunisolar calendar, which accounts both for the movement of the sun through the zodiac and the moon’s cycles.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This year’s Lunar New Year, which follows the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar, falls on February 1.
    — Cheryl Tiu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The Jewish calendar is based on the lunisolar cycle, which does not sync with the Gregorian one.
    — Dan Saltzstein, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Entwined with the Chinese legend of Chang'e, goddess of the moon, the festival follows the Chinese lunisolar calendar, falling on the 15th day of the eighth month.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The date, unlike the 365-day Gregorian Calendar that starts on Jan. 1, aligns with the lunisolar cycle, in which months are based off moon phases.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Both Easter and Passover follow a schedule that aligns with the moon’s phases and the sun’s position in the sky, known as the lunisolar calendar, according to the Farmer’s Almanac.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Lunar New Year is an annual celebration marking the arrival of spring and the start of the new year on the lunisolar calendar.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The holiday marks the arrival of spring and the start of a new year under the lunisolar calendar in a celebration that dates back to the Chinese agrarian tradition.
    — TIME, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The holiday falls on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice, marking the start of a new annual cycle based on the lunisolar calendar, and a way to welcome the beginning of spring.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Holi is a national holiday that usually occurs in March on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Lunar New Year, the beginning of the new year based on the lunisolar calendar is quickly creeping up and the unique celebration has many traditions to partake in.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Just like much of the world celebrates the beginning of a new calendar year on January 1, those who celebrate the Lunar New Year welcome the beginning of the new lunisolar year.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The holiday seems to change dates annually since it's based on the Hebrew calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar.
    — Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Chinese zodiac cycle consists of 12 animal signs, one for each lunisolar year.
    — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Prehistoric peoples may have created the world’s oldest lunisolar calendar thousands of years ago to mark a calamitous comet strike, according to a new study.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The holiday is referred to as the Lunar New Year because the date is determined by the lunisolar calendar (a calendar is based on the cycles of the moon and the sun) traditionally followed in east Asian countries.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Other people also celebrate based on the lunar calendar as well as a lunisolar calendar, such as the Islamic New Year, which will be on July 25 this year.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Although holidays on solar and lunisolar calendars occur in the same season every year, Muslim holidays can be enjoyed in all four seasons over the course of some 40 years.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Her multicultural church is planning a dinner as part of the coming Lantern Festival, which is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunisolar Chinese calendar month.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The exact date of Passover changes every year, because the Jewish calendar is lunisolar, rather than following the 365-day solar cycle of the Gregorian calendar.
    — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Depicting both solar and lunar cycles, the engravings may form the world’s oldest lunisolar calendar, predating others of its kind by thousands of years.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Aug. 2024
  • This 15-day celebration, celebrated by billions of people, is based on the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, which uses the moon's phases and the Earth's orbit around the sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Solar calendars have an extra day added in during leap years and lunisolar calendars typically have a thirteenth month added in during leap years to keep the moon phases consistent with seasons.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Researchers are sure, however, that the engravings on the monument track both moon phases and sun cycles, making this site the world’s earliest lunisolar calendar by more than a millennium.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in many countries that historically used lunisolar calendars.
    — Vivian Lam, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Jewish people welcome the new year in September or October, not January, in observance of the lunisolar Hebrew calendar.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020

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