How to Use cent in a Sentence

cent

noun

• A dime is worth 10 cents.
• Overnight, gas prices jumped more than nine cents.
  — Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 May 2026
• The death rate is as high as fifty per cent.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
• Lyft earned 11 cents per share.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
• The price of crude plunged by more than ten per cent.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• The gap was 62 cents a month ago.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Not all of them, but 90 per cent.
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• The tax would be 20 cents per ride.
  — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• This year, only one per cent did.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• The staffers proposed a cut of fifty per cent.
  — Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
• That isn’t just a way to save dollars and cents.
  — Dr. Anne Marie Morse, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• With both options, your points are worth 1 cent each.
  — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
• The Dow has fallen by about four per cent.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
• That's about 7 cents per waffle.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
• Last year a turkey was 98 cents per pound.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
• Find 12 cents while out running though.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 17 Sep. 2025
• About 78 per cent of penalties are scored.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• Barca would keep a 30 per cent sell-on clause.
  — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• That's 18-cents higher than just a week ago.
  — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• That's 21 cents higher than this time last year.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
• Forty years ago, the same stamp cost only 22 cents.
  — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
• By 2018, this surged to 56 per cent.
  — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• These things aren’t 25 cents anymore.
  — Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• That is a cost that cannot be measured in dollars and cents.
  — Robert Travieso, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
• Game over, please deposit 25 cents.
  — Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2026
• But certain things can’t be priced in dollars and cents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
• Steph’s career number is around forty-two per cent right now.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
• The trick is not to chase a three-cent discount 11 miles off course.
  — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• The current gas price per gallon is six cents less than the same time last month.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2024
• The nickel in your pocket is worth 5 cents.
  — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026