How to Use rate in a Sentence

rate

1 of 2 noun

• The Fed has raised its key rate to a 22-year high of about 5.4 percent.
  — Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The next year, at the height of the pandemic, the rate jogged upward for the first time in decades to 9.3%.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Riders who are matched with a taxi will pay the UberX rate.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• That suggests that Kevin and Cale believe that rates are not yet enough high enough.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
• Jump to Answer 14 The standard frame rate for movies is 24 frames per second.
  — Craigh Barboza, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
• Last month, the Fed held rates steady amid signs that inflation has cooled from recent highs.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
• High mortgage rates, low stock of available homes, and inflation have pushed up the cost of home buying in the past year.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• That left millennials and Gen Zers with the scraps of starter homes left on the market and mortgage rates that hadn’t been seen in decades.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• Most economists think that China will settle at a GDP growth rate between 4% and 5% in the years to come.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 1 July 2023
• But the Fed also indicated that there would still be three rate cuts this year.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• Currently, there are three warning signs to alert there is a speed camera, with the last sign showing the rate of speed, Weiss said.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• In turn, this would gradually shift our seasons over time at a rate of six hours per year.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
• But the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% in a sign that the job market remains resilient.
  — Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Indeed, Leonard has seen much higher interest rates in the past.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• Remember, the purpose of rising rates was to slow down the economy.
  — Ann Skeet, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Interest rates vary by person, ranging from 0% to 36% APR, and are determined at the time of sign-up.
  — Kerwin McKenzie, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• Sudanese refugees continue to stream into Chad at a rate of 2,000 per day, aid workers say.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• The firm’s basic services will be compensated at a rate of 7.5% of the budget for the construction costs, the agreement says.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2023
• Already, Seattle’s asking rent growth rate is at -2% and could fall further.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• Now, after the downgrade, that interest rate has spiked to 4.18 percent.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Fed is expected to announce whether interest rates will change at the beginning of next month.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The smallest stocks, which took the hardest hit from worries about higher interest rates on Tuesday, bounced back more than the rest of the market.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• Over time, the insects that have the receptors for those scents will have better survival rates and produce more offspring.
  — Christine Picard, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
• In light of its progress in cooling inflation, the Fed expects to cut interest rates sometime this year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The higher the consumption rate, the higher the theft rate, and American overconsumption is at an all-time high.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Signs of sticky inflation have already dampened hopes that the Fed would soon begin cutting rates.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
• But the abysmal survival rate for IMF heads might explain why the government had no choice but to bring back an old director like Kittridge.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Ohio’s poverty rate has exceeded the nation’s since 2016.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• West Virginia currently has the second-highest child-poverty rate in the nation and places four times as many children in foster care per capita as the country as a whole.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
• The new bond is not expected to raise property taxes for Nampa residents, but to keep taxes similar to the current rate citizens pay for the expiring bond, according to the city.
  — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024

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rate

2 of 2 verb

• What's the interest rate on the loan?
• There has been a fall in the rate of inflation.
• Snow was falling at a rate of three inches per hour.
• The cold weather meant a slower growing rate for many crops.
• Crime rates have declined in recent years.
• At the rate we're moving, it will be morning before we arrive.
• People work at different rates.
• Gun violence is increasing at an alarming rate.
• Regular admission to the theater is $12, the student rate is $8, and the rate for senior citizens is $6.
• The site rates Basallo as the No. 5 prospect in the Orioles’ system.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2023
• And then all of a sudden we were rated the best place to work in the world about five years in or six years in.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
• He is rated as a three-star prospect by 247Sports and Rivals.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
• Personnel are hired to ask questions and then rate the answers of the AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Swedbank, Nordea and Danske Bank are all rated at hold.
  — WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• Six were rated at least a 3 out of 5 based on strength and duration.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Players still rate it as a more prestigious prize than the T20 World Cup.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• At the time of the incident, Robinson was rated among the Top 100 prospects in baseball.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2023
• Hundreds of shoppers have rated the mask pack five stars.
  — Carly Kulzer, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• Best for allergies The BreezoMeter app rates the amount of pollen from three sources — trees, weeds and grass — on a 1-to-5 scale.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Morgan has rated the Wave’s support staff best in class.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2024
• In a brief on-the-street interview, Healy is asked to rate Swift’s diss track on the album compared to the 30 other songs.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
• The five-star Clemson pledge is rated the fifth-best receiver in the nation.
  — Demetrio Teniente, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
• Another idea is to rate your feelings on a scale of 1 to 5, Salas-Burnett notes.
  — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
• Saltburn has a run time of two hours and seven minutes and is rated R.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• On a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the firmest), West Elm rates its Harmony collection as a 1.
  — Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2023
• In 2022, as the worst of the inflation surge hit, the share who rated their own finances as good declined a little.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Many of the cities that pioneered reducing car use—like Copenhagen in the 1970s—are rated today as some of the best places to live in the world.
  — Andrew Kersley, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• After rating all the cookware and narrowing it down to the seven best-in-class, the Lodge grill pan was deemed the best overall.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• Chris Sailer Kicking rated him the No. 7 kicker in the nation.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• Sixty-three percent rated the Israel-Hamas war as important to their vote, but this ranked above only the Russia-Ukraine war as a top concern.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024