How to Use on average in a Sentence

on average

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  • Tickets on the site for the third-place match are on average $2,313.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • That is 1,438 arrests per day on average in the month of June.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 July 2026
  • The county has not released estimates of how much each tax credit would be worth on average.
    — Ilana Arougheti july 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • So a grandchild is 60 years away from the grandparents, on average.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • But meetings as close as this one are quite rare, occurring on average once about every 40 years.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • One study found that participants who reduced their sleep time by just over an hour every night for six weeks gained about a pound on average.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 20 July 2026
  • Trump's approval rating ranges from about 39% to 41% on average.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • People in the Blue Zones eat at least four times as many beans as Americans do on average.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
  • Adults, on average, have gotten larger, which makes being in an airline seat even less comfortable.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
  • The first hurricane of the year, on average, forms during the second week of August.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Based on these numbers, on average, caregivers now receive only two hours (roughly) of training per month.
    — Jeff Beck, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The newspaper's analysis found such killings occurred on average once every five days.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • State firms underperform private firms on average and can create fiscal risks.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • September also ranks as the worst month of the year for the S & P 500, on average.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 13 July 2026
  • Seats have gotten smaller at the same time that Americans, on average, have gotten larger.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • Yellowstone records a couple of bison attacks every year, on average.
    — Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • The Tracebit Canariens, on average, alerted the start of an attack within eight minutes.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • Such currents are the leading cause of wildfires, which, on average, go undetected for 24 hours.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Maybe Black people are better at basketball than White people on average.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • In most cases, that’s nearly all—90% to 95% of the dividends, on average!
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • The study pooled data from two randomized trials that included 95 adults who were 34 years old on average.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 6 July 2026
  • In recent years, visits to food pantries and soup kitchens have increased 84%, on average per month, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Fourth, Housing Court needs more staffing and support because on average cases can take up to 15 months to resolve.
    — Shimon Shkury, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Where data were available, their revenues equaled 17 percent of gross domestic product on average.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Participants, all residents of Brazil and about 52 years old on average, were monitored for eight years.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
  • By April 2026, each missile was expected to cost about $67 million on average.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026
  • Since 2011, Open winners were making, on average, their 38th career major start that week.
    — Justin Ray, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Pest control costs between $40 and $80 per month, or $80 to $160 per treatment, on average.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • But in Florida, the period between the signing of a death warrant and an execution is roughly one month, on average.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Even though people managed only four to five breaks a day on average—well short of the hourly ideal—the average participant’s fatigue dropped by about 25%.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 July 2026

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