How to Use percentage in a Sentence

percentage

noun
  • 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.
  • To the south of Lahaina, that percentage jumps to 41.8%.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 May 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
  • That’s the lowest percentage in the 13-year history of the survey.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • What about the percentage of the records that the opposition could not access?
    Jhasua Razo, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Keep in mind that many crowdfunding platforms charge a fee (such as a percentage of the total funds raised).
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2024
  • And for the percentage of birds that are hurt by a window collision but may still appear to perk back up, the study findings are grim.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
  • If a certain percentage of users’ taps test above that threshold, the water provider may need to make changes to its treatment process.
    Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Gilbert had the highest percentage of families with young kids in all the cities and towns Wallethub analyzed for the study.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
  • Over 98% of its residents have health insurance, and the city logged among the lowest percentages of people in fair or poor health in the study.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But the Screen Writers Guild held out for a royalty — a percentage of the gross, not a flat fee — and declared the first-ever writers strike.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 June 2023
  • The percentage of voters without an opinion on Hovde dropped down to 56% in the most recent poll.
    Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Saber did not share how many or what percentage of employees were let go.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Stars also finished with the highest percentage of shots blocked as a team in the regular season at 28.18%.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
  • That’s under a 1% acceptance rate, give or take—a percentage Solomon takes pride in.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024
  • That percentage was higher for those who used cannabis at least monthly: 27%.
    New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2024
  • For body fat percentage, the Scale X skewed a little higher, but was still within one percent of the Omiron.
    PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So that begins to plant the seed of remembering percent body fat as a percentage of fat to muscle.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But in the broader picture — beyond a one-year snapshot — the percentage of students meeting the state math and English standards remains below the state.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024

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