How to Use three-quarters in a Sentence

three-quarters

noun
  • This means three-quarters of the remaining teams are from Europe.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 8 July 2026
  • All singing and moving in three-quarters time at the halting dawn of the 20th century.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Don't pack your washer more than three-quarters full, as this will ensure that all of the clothes in the load have room to move and are thoroughly rinsed.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
  • Kalshi said that about three-quarters of all visitors to the platform don't trade on contracts and only search to find current odds.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 22 July 2026
  • By the 42nd day of treatment, more than three-quarters of the patients had improved or stabilized.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • Garcia sits 93-94 and is up to 96 with a high-riding fastball from a high three-quarters slot.
    — Keith Law, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • The town offered no tax break and stood to make about $6 million in property taxes, something like three-quarters of the town budget.
    — Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • His two-seamer is 91-94 from a low three-quarters slot with an average slider and fringy changeup.
    — Keith Law, New York Times, 15 July 2026
  • But a study of Gen Z consumers found that more than three-quarters of those who paid upfront for a group expense never got repaid in full.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Add three-quarters of the celery mixture to the potatoes and marinating liquid, dump in the mayo dressing, and gently stir to combine.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
  • About three-quarters believe in God or a higher power and express a desire to grow spiritually.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
  • More than 85% of the portfolio’s assets are investment-grade in nature, and three-quarters is rated A or above.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Nearly half of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts come from California, according to the state.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • The picture was nearly three-quarters finished when the artist died in 1669, leaving passages that expose his working process.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2026
  • More than three-quarters of the state’s Long Island Sound beaches had consistently clean water last summer.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2026
  • Just five states in central and northern Mexico produce three-quarters of Mexican lettuce.
    — CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • Owners would then need to approve the move by a majority vote, not the three-quarters approval the league needs for many other important issues in front of the board of governors.
    — Esfandiar Baraheni, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Climate change, habitat loss, pollution and plant pesticides have contributed to a picture where more than three-quarters of butterfly species are in decline.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 28 July 2026
  • Nearly three-quarters of Northwestern undergraduates end up combining two or more fields.
    — Jamie Beaton, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The company also reported a 20% bump in its supply chain emissions, which account for three-quarters of its total carbon footprint.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, over three-quarters of economists polled by Reuters expect the Fed to hold interest rates steady for the rest of 2026.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Nearly three-quarters of a century later, the ceasefire remains in place — even as both sides have exchanged cross-border gunfire over the years, and as a formal peace treaty remains elusive.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • The figure is even higher for bathroom-specific appointments, where roughly three-quarters of visits involved the technology.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Boise Auditorium District scoops up land The district now owns about three-quarters of the two-block grid along River Street.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2026
  • About three-quarters of futures bets expected no change to the benchmark lending rate and the remainder predicted a quarter-point increase; traders expect at least one rate hike — and perhaps as many as four — by year end.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
  • Fire crews working to fully contain a wildfire south of Pleasanton that forced evacuations earlier this week were more than three-quarters of the way there by midday Friday.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • California is significant because the state supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than three-quarters of the fruits and nuts eaten in the United States.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • The gift from Kelly and Shear consists of fifty-one works by Winters that represent almost three-quarters of all prints made by the artist in the 1980s.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 29 June 2026
  • More than three-quarters of SK Hynix's revenue comes from RAM, including HBM.
    — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • Pennington is three-quarters of the way through a maximum 10-year term at the helm of the private partnership, which has about 55,000 employees.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 10 July 2026

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