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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For body fat percentage, the Scale X skewed a little higher, but was still within one percent of the Omiron.
  — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Oettinger has had two good games in this series, but Philipp Grubauer has been just as wobbly (.865 save percentage).
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• What's unlikely to change is that, once a deal is done, both agents will earn a commission that's a percentage of a home's selling price.
  — Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2024
• Favorites scored on four wins in 18 races over the past two days – dropping the favorite winning percentage to 46 percent for the season.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Despite no winner coming forward, the gas station will still get a percentage of the prize.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• By October last year, that percentage fell to about 80%.
  — Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• Boston boasts the best 3-point percentage in the playoffs, shooting 39.5 percent.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• In fact, a greater percentage of residents are urban dwellers — 90%— than anywhere in the country.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024