How to Use margin in a Sentence

margin

noun

• Please write your name in the left margin of the page.
• Mountains lie at the city's northern margins.
• Even among the housed, feeders tend to live on the margins.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Of the eight losses, the smallest margin was 13 points.
  — Lewis Bagley, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2023
• The 24-point halftime margin was Yale’s largest in a decade.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Bulldogs shot 3-of-9 from 3 in that time, as the game went to half with a one-point margin.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
• The weird, in the weird-sisters sense of the word, has a discernible place in Moore’s fiction, albeit in the margins.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
• Biden then won it over Trump in 2020, also by a small margin.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• Last season, Ravens receivers ranked last in the NFL in yards by a wide margin.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 29 Aug. 2023
• The margin of error for the total sample is ±2.8 points.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, Fred Backus, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
• The big-game margin always has been slim between the countries.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• Malik Hall sinks a layup as time expires to put the game at a seven-point margin.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
• Veloz discovered that Mary had moved around a lot — city to city — living on the margins.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
• The measure passed by a slight margin (51.2 percent) in San Diego county.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
• Clark’s putt went just to the right of the cup, but a subsequent birdie attempt dropped, building his margin to three strokes.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Hassan won by the slimmest of margins, a contrast to the rest of the day as the Scorpions showed a vast distance between their programs and the rest of the 2A field.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
• The first brother, Dixon, is a former Olympic hopeful in track and field who missed making the team by the narrowest of margins.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• By a margin of roughly 20 points, voters in those swing states give Trump the advantage on the issue.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• The win was monumental in more ways than just the margin of victory on the scoreboard.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• The plan had tight margins but high promise, based on the cidery’s previous successes and growth.
  — Ameunier, oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• Democrats are defending a 22-18 margin in that chamber and Youngkin has amassed a gigantic war chest to try to flip it.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• In other words, Kennedy's net effect on the election in this scenario would have been to decrease Biden's margin by 0.5 points.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The four-goal margin of victory also marked just the second time in two years the team had won by multiple scores.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The vote was overwhelmingly approved by a 98% margin, the union said Monday night.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Her reclamation of rock and roll was a homage to the musicians like Richard, who were pushed to the margins when white musicians came into the spotlight in the 1960s.
  — Taylor Crumpton, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023
• Two of the opponents are Wyoming and Air Force, so Hawaii’s margin for error is perilously thin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
• The company in May said first-quarter earnings rose, helped by margins.
  — WSJ, 11 July 2023
• And then there’s former President Donald Trump, the polling front-runner by a wide margin who once again won’t be on the debate stage.
  — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• With five top-performing albums, Swift owns more spots on the tally than any other artist by a huge margin.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The last earnings call was notable for two things: soaring revenues and dwindling margins.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024