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
• The tablet with the Ten Commandments wasn’t numbered, so the order is of some dispute; at any rate, our pastor was talking about the matter of the Sabbath and how to observe it.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• Despite the attacks, the murder rate in Las Vegas was down 11% compared to the same time last year, according to police data.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023

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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
• Each expert was given the same set of questions and asked to rate their beanie from one to five for fit, durability, and warmth.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024