How to Use respondent in a Sentence

respondent

noun
  • A majority of respondents said they disagreed with the mayor's plan.
  • What’s more is 62% of respondents said their goal is to leave their home to their heirs.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Nearly 50% of respondents said the state of the economy was poor.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In May, 46% of respondents said the U.S. should send weapons to Ukraine, compared with 29% who were opposed.
    Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That’s a huge jump from just 20 years ago, when less than a third of respondents identified that way.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
  • About a third of respondents didn’t weigh in on its importance.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In the first part of the year, 35% of respondents worked fully remote or worked a hybrid mix of some time at a workplace and some time at home.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The survey said 84% of respondents said their cost of living is going up.
    Fatema Hosseini, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
  • More than 55% of the respondents took the survey online; the remainder gave their answers via a phone call.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers found that 44% of respondents knew their BMI, while just 15% knew their blood sugar level.
    Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But among respondents over 55, only 25% are in favor of equal rights.
    TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The longer my text and Slack threads stretched, the more respondents tried to figure out why anyone was even talking about dudes and the Roman Empire in the first place.
    WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In all cases, the time frame for our analysis was the respondents’ last fiscal year.
    Mohamed Kande and Lang Davidson Of Pwc, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Two-thirds of respondents said that might make the restaurants more appealing.
    Madison Muller, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In the same poll cited above, only 36 percent of respondents thought Charles seemed in touch with the lives of everyday Britons.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Still an overwhelming 85% of respondents said Poland should help Ukraine during the war.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The survey found that 57% of respondents think about money every day, compared to 52% last year.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 May 2023
  • Overall, 41% of respondents said religion does equal amounts of good and harm.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The group said about 70% of respondents from the first wave participated in the second survey.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Half of the respondents approved of his recent trip to China to while 39% disapproved.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The average person falls asleep by 10 p.m., but nearly a fifth of respondents go to bed later than this.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The general electorate consists of all respondents who were at least 18 years old.
    Monica Potts, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The iSpot survey found 30% of respondents expect to spend at least one-fifth or more across streaming platforms.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Among respondents, 43% made their kitchens more open to other indoor spaces, up 5 percent from a few years ago.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Less than a third of respondents who saw actors as privileged sympathized with the unions.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • So say respondents to the latest Markets Live Pulse survey.
    Esha Dey, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Less than half the Democratic respondents supported the idea of a third major party, Gallup found.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The first correct respondent will be mentioned in next week’s newsletter.
    cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Or what about forty-seven per cent of respondents to the poll who said their investments or retirement savings had gone in the wrong direction during the past year?
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
  • To experts’ surprise, the number of respondents who were identified as having more than one race was second only to the number who identified as white.
    Michael Wines, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024

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