How to Use quartile in a Sentence

quartile

noun
  • Scores for the top quartile rose slightly in eighth-grade reading and math.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Their season ticket renewals were in the top quartile in the league.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Next-lowest quartile gets three tickets.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The best funds make returns in the top 25% of their group, also called the top quartile.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • However, its performance so far this year lands it in the third quartile.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Among the bottom quartile of earners, that proportion is more than half.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Nearly two-thirds of the lowest quartile of earners are women.
    — Liz Hoffman and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • That places him in the bottom quartile of playmakers/creators.
    — Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 11 July 2024
  • The lowest quartile presumably would never have been able to master many of these rules in the first place.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2012
  • On a one-year horizon, almost a third of Amundi’s funds were in the bottom two quartiles.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, the needle had hardly budged among the bottom quartile of presidents.
    — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • But none of that was primarily oriented to the third quartile.
    — Frank Lavin, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Firms also published the share of men and women in each income quartile, with most proving top-heavy with men (see chart).
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, one is the rate of return, especially among the top quartile of performers.
    — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Nimmo’s 45% groundball rate is in the top quartile among major league hitters.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The participants played a video game, then some were shown a leaderboard that placed them in the top or bottom quartile of players.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the opposite was true for the highest-income quartile.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Miami ranked at the bottom of the pack for share of scale-ups, and in the bottom quartile for the other two categories.
    — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Texas sits in the middle with 11% and Florida is in the top quartile with 23%.
    — Effie Anolik, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • By contrast, the bottom quartile has already worked through a chunk of savings and has around $100 billion left.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • On the other hand, a child from a family in the top income quartile, who has low test scores in grade school, has a 70% chance of getting that good job.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
  • That’s important, as teams in the top quartile for engagement are 23% more profitable than those in the bottom quartile.
    — David Earl, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Research shows that 8 percent of people in the top income quartile run out of money if they are only retired for 20 years.
    — Bruce Helmer and Peg Webb, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Those in the third and fourth quartile are above the national average, while those in the first and second are below the national average.
    — Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2017
  • The fund earned a gold rating from Morningstar analysts, and the fund’s expense ratios are in the cheapest quartile compared to peer value funds.
    — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Murphy said the team’s local revenue is typically in the top of the second quartile among NFL teams.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 16 July 2024
  • SPACs in the quartile with lower revenue forecasts lag the market by just over 10% on average.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This intra-top-quartile resentment may also help explain why more politicians want higher taxes on super-high earners but don’t ask the upper middle class to pay any more.
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The new arena also catapulted the club from the bottom of the NBA’s revenue rankings to the top quartile.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 14 June 2026
  • When Chapek took over as CEO in 2020, the board set his target pay in the bottom quartile for media chiefs.
    — Anders Melin, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022

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