How to Use percentile in a Sentence

percentile

noun

• His height and weight are in the 80th percentile for boys his age.
• This week’s storms took the state to about the 20th percentile.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
• Among bigs, his shot rate at the rim is in the 88th percentile.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2021
• That number ranked in the 80th percentile in the league, per Cleaning The Glass.
  — Conor Roche, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• The Bucks only took 21% of their shots at the rim tonight, which is 8th percentile.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• His 34-inch arms were in the 71st percentile of his rookie class.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 13 Mar. 2021
• Our tester’s son, who is in the 99th percentile for height, never seemed squished.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 14 Feb. 2024
• That places him in the 98th percentile (or the top two percent) of all NBA players that year.
  — Joel Rush, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Over the course of the season, India ranks near the 60th percentile in MLB in barrel rate.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 July 2021
• The Covid death rate in the hospital’s treatment area was at the 52nd percentile.
  — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• And like Alaska’s already raised it up to the 75 percentile.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• Species richness in these gardens scored in the 86th percentile or above.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• In the exams mentioned, GPT-4 scored in the 88th percentile and above, and a full list of exams and the system’s scores can be seen here.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
• The biggest takeaway is the results by the percentiles where the lowest percentile lost the most.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• His three open SPACs are all in the bottom 20th percentile for returns since the market top.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
• In each of those years, Charmoli ranked at or above the 95th percentile for the number of crowns installed by dentists in the state.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
• His changeup is also in the top 10 percentile league-wide in terms of movement.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2022
• South Florida’s winds Wednesday were in the 97th percentile for this time of year.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• By year-end, Ryan will rank in the top 50 percentile of players in the U.S., all ages, according to Crawford.
  — Marcy De Luna, Chron, 30 Dec. 2020
• His sprint speed, according to Statcast, ranks in the 98th percentile in the majors.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
• This time, the test told me that my extroversion had increased, going from the 23rd percentile to the 33rd.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
• In addition to the ventriculomegaly, the baby’s head had grown to the 97th percentile but the body was much smaller.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• The boost was even bigger for squarely middle-class households, or those in the 40th to 60th wealth percentile.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• Only about 60% of students in the bottom 25th percentile had the same access.
  — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• The school was in the third percentile of schools statewide, with nearly half of students failing to graduate.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• Many of Antioch’s schools are below the 20th percentile in math.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Online, the data is sliced as fine as a single percentile.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
• Those in the top 10% were rated at the 88th percentile on both capacities.
  — Jack Zenger, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Grimes is darn near a black belt in this regard, placing in the 84th percentile in true shooting on drives (per Thinking Basketball).
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Those four regimes were all periods above the median (depicted in orange), above the mean (depicted in green), and above the 80th percentile (shown in light blue).
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024