How to Use percentage in a Sentence

percentage

noun
Definition of percentagenext
Synonyms for percentagenext
  • What percentage of your income do you spend on rent?
  • The percentages of women completing high school and college were 95 percent and 52 percent, respectively.
  • The percentage of claims that are low risk seems to be growing by the day.
    — Tom Cullinan, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • To the south of Lahaina, that percentage jumps to 41.8%.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 May 2024
  • Will these percentages hold up for the rest of the season?
    — Mikai Bruce, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The higher the percentage, the longer the protection time is – up to six hours.
    — Hailey A. Luker, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • Some clubs even slid you a percentage of the profit when a man bought you a drink.
    — Celine Saintclare, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Sox had a .295 on-base percentage from the leadoff spot last season.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That’s the lowest percentage in the 13-year history of the survey.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The batch favored Hobbs over Lake by less than 10 percentage points.
    — Meg Kinnard, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2022
  • But in terms of uninsured deposits as a percentage of assets, SVB was in the top 1%.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The percentage of results in is an estimate from the AP.
    — NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The Chargers tied for 30th in yards per attempt and finished 31st in percentage of plays that were runs.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • What about the percentage of the records that the opposition could not access?
    — Jhasua Razo, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Golden Eagles led the Big East in hitting percentage, kills and aces.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Giannuzzi has been on a good run with a .940 save percentage in his last 6 games.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The percentage of young adults living at home climbed over 87% in the last 20 years, per Census data.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The map below shows the percentage of clouds forecast at noon on Sunday.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Avakyan’s game on Tuesday helped, but outside of Suchanek their goalies have a save percentage of .862.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The largest percentage of jobs each month have been government jobs.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Some are required in the office fully, but that’s a tiny percentage.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • Cash back cards that offer the same percentage rate, no matter the purchase.
    — Byivana Pino, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Warriors rank last in free throw percentage this season.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But these two groups make up a very high percentage of big old street trees around the community.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The stock is on course for its steepest daily percentage drop since listing in 2017.
    — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
  • To this day, Hawaii has one of the highest percentages of transgender people in the country.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • The Sun Devils were last in shooting percentage with 35.7% of shots going through.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But, none of the Finnish goalies have a better save percentage than Annunen’s .918 over the past two seasons combined.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The defendants were said to have profited from the scheme by receiving tax refund checks from the U.S. Treasury and charging clients a fee or a percentage of the tax refund.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The percentage of Americans who believe others were involved in a conspiracy to kill the president has never dropped below 50%, according to Gallup polls taken through the years.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025

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