How to Use percent in a Sentence

percent

noun

• The value has increased half a percent.
• The index declined about 7 percent in the past year and was flat over the past 30 days.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
• Don't miss this chance to get a pair for up to 50 percent off at Amazon.
  — Jen Ator, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
• Fubo worked with Spectrum to offer a discount of 25 percent or more for the first two months.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• The blaze was 0 percent contained, the fire department said.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2023
• More than 90 percent of Ukrainians want to be part of the European Union.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2023
• That works out to about 2.5 hundredths of a percent of the population.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• To date this year, the firm has increased its attorney base more than 20 percent.
  — Peter Caranicas, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• The box office totals came in 76 percent over this same weekend last year.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2023
• Both versions net users 5 percent off and free two-day shipping.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 July 2023
• This worked for a while; Reddit saw a nearly 70 percent increase in hours watched in just under a year.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• Analysts said PointsBets had about a 3 percent share of the market.
  — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
• That’s 11 percent of the House, and the session isn’t even over yet; a handful more will probably depart before the year is out.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Almost 30 percent of the residents were younger than 18 years old.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• David estimates that 60 percent of their business comes from out of town–and even from outside of Texas.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2023
• Shoppers can save up to 50 percent on cozy sweatshirts, leggings, sweater dresses, and more in shades of snake-green.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
• What about the farmers who use about 80 percent of the Colorado River, compared with the sliver Las Vegas gets?
  — Daniel Rothberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• In the last 30 years, conservationists think the bears’ numbers have dropped by 30 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the United States today that figure is only 30 percent.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• There’s also a 25 percent bonus for business class and a 50 percent bonus for Acela First Class reservations.
  — Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2024
• That dropped to around 7 percent as reports of the blackout circulated.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Nasdaq rebalancing is expected to cut the group's weight to 40 percent.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 22 July 2023
• Polls receive a daily decay of about 7 percent, close to the setting for our polling averages.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• About 80 percent of the menu at the Convoy location will be duplicated at Otay.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Her hair was blown out straight and likely ironed for a pin-straight finish; there's zero percent bend on those ends, though her mid-lengths do have a bit of motion and movement.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Nov. 2023
• My body fat has dropped nearly 8 percent, lean muscle mass is up 2 percent, and my grip strength has increased 3 percent.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2023
• For instance, do animals still seem to react if the sun is only 90 or 95 percent covered?
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• In more than 90 percent of the cases, the killers also were Black males, usually an acquaintance from the same neighborhood.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Baggy Straight Jeans These jeans are made with 100 percent cotton and boast a classic, straight-leg style that is a capsule wardrobe non-negotiable.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2023
• In Long Beach, brake and tires constituted 15 percent of PM 2.5 pollution, which was the same as pollution from gas and diesel.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024