How to Use decimal point in a Sentence

decimal point

noun

• It’s the kind of growth that adds zeroes on the left-hand side of the decimal point.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• The 4-star running back reached the final 4 before missing out on a spot in the game by mere decimal points.
  — David Wilson Diehards, ajc, 23 Nov. 2017
• My challenge to all mocksters out there is to use solid numbers next year and avoid the decimal points.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2018
• That $399 — no decimal point — is part of a bid by the brand to cultivate a hipper image and attract younger drinkers.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• In the wake of his firing are students whose chances of going pro in baseball are less than a decimal point of a fraction of a fraction.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 21 Mar. 2018
• Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• An hour after the game, the Cavaliers’ trainer was still plucking decimal points out of James’ skin.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• But [DSPs] could lose another zero and move that digit closer to the decimal point.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Turns out, a decimal point on the bill was accidentally moved.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2017
• The school’s math progress may not look like much: a small improvement amounting to a single decimal point increase from spring 2019 to the spring of this year, according to state test results.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• Jones, however, doesn’t prefer to talk numbers, whether it’s regarding his stats or the numbers of zeroes on the left side of the decimal point on his next contract.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• The reason for the expensive blunder: a misplaced decimal point.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2021
• This is equivalent to the number 1 written behind a decimal point and 20 zeroes.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
• And a final tip for employers coming up with ways to help savings: Stay away from percentages or decimal points, which don't jibe with the human brain.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Mat Ishbia made a fortune in the mortgage business, where risks are calculated down to the final decimal point.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Baghdad is where algebra, the decimal point, and the first method to calculate the radius of the Earth were invented in ancient times—and Iraq, Blasim feels, is a rightful heir to the sci-fi tradition.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2017
• That could mean probing the Universe to greater precision, where every decimal point in your measurement counts.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• This number shows the last three digits of a station’s air-pressure reading to the nearest tenth of a millibar (mb); the last number actually comes after the decimal point.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
• The internal document projected the yield on raw material to the decimal point and earnings to the dollar.
  — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
• In a field in which lives turned on tiny differences in engineering and chance three or four places to the right of the decimal point, a questionable heart was not a remotely tolerable risk.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 July 2019
• Columbia County’s 911 agency has learned the hard way that an errant decimal point can make an enormous difference.
  — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
• Adding zeros at the end of a number increases its magnitude, with the help of a decimal point, adding zeros at the beginning decreases its magnitude.
  — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• The average of these ratings determines the final score based on four decimal points, with two decimal points being published.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2023
• The temperature at 2:20 p.m. that day was provided to an accuracy of one decimal point.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• If that happens, there will be laughter from Minneapolis to Miami, and more importantly, the checks from television partners will have fewer digits to the left of the decimal point.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• The revised figure when calculated with decimal points is 18.4 percent.
  — Glenn Kessler, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Correction: The original version of this article misplaced a decimal point, lamentably.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• With measurements, performance, and pricing that are within a decimal point or two of the competition, the GV70 stands out with a dazzling sense of style and a fastidious attention to the details that define luxury.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2021
• Placing infinitely many digits to the right of the decimal point corresponds to infinite precision.
  — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Greg’s confidence is boosted only slightly in the presence of Connor, who’s polling at 1 percent in his presidential bid and practically shriveling at the idea of dropping to decimal points.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024