How to Use decimal in a Sentence

decimal

1 of 2 adjective

• This is an exceptionally large number, and no one has ever been able to write it out in decimal form.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
• The question was repeated — this time a decimal above the initial inquiry.
  — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
• Each one could be divided and multiplied using a decimal scale.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2020
• The decimal meter hit 115 at Ford Field, and after a field goal, the game was tied.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
• Instead of only changing the finest decimal points at the very end, a value further forward has also changed.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• Think of it like the infinity of decimal numbers that exist between zero and one.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
• Because Bitcoin can be divided out to eight decimal places, small fractions of a whole can be purchased.
  — Charlie Wells, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• The number to the left of the decimal designates the distillery and the number to the right the particular batch.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• And the numbers between the dollar sign and the decimal point undoubtedly will continue to grow.
  — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Watch your change and decimal points, as money mistakes are a real possibility.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
• If that wasn’t enough, the timepiece features another complication in the form of a decimal minute repeater.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 June 2021
• But the system took time to take hold (and the accompanying notion of a 10-hour decimal day never did).
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• His decimal-point scores were provocatively precise, calculated to start fights.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• The highest and lowest scores for each run are dropped, and the remaining three scores are averaged to two decimal places resulting in the final run score.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
• Given that medical progress is often seen in decimal-point increments, these were staggering numbers.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• For the unversed, classic minute repeaters chime the hour, quarter hours, and minutes, but the decimal variation strikes tones for the hours, the tens of minutes, and the single minutes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• Sometimes this rate can be hard to find and is depicted on the bill differently from the SOS price, such as in decimal form rather than a digit.
  — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• The difference may be only a few decimal points, but an earthquake’s energy is measured exponentially.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The key difference is that electronic processors operate in binary rather than decimal.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
• Their beauty comes in part from offering the best approximation of an irrational number, which, when written as a decimal, would run on for infinity.
  — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
• Topics include the adoption of a decimal rating system, the indie rock boom, and the inside story of the site’s acquisition by Condé Nast.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
• Those decimal points carried the fate and dreams of countless Latinos and immigrants across the nation whose future rests on political margins getting wider, not smaller.
  — Paola Ramos, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2022
• So, in June of 1799, two platinum standards—a meter rod and a kilogram cylinder—were forged, marking the creation of the decimal metric system.
  — Robert Rathe, National Geographic, 20 May 2019
• Pi itself is an irrational number with a decimal representation that goes on forever without a repeating pattern.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
• To calculate how much fertilizer to apply for 1 pound of nitrogen, divide 1 by the decimal value of the nitrogen percentage shown on the bag (first of three numbers).
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• Everyone knows there is no such thing as perfection; even the design of the scoreboards at the Montreal Olympics seemed to acknowledge that, having only enough room to show a single digit and two decimal places.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 July 2021
• Over the centuries Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematicians continued to calculate pi to more and more decimal places.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2021
• The complications include two high-speed triple-axis tourbillions, a decimal minute repeater, a monopusher chronograph, and a reference time differential function.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2021
• The 2012 book Math Goes to the Movies points out a few huge goofs, including the title sequence’s misrepresentation of pi’s decimal expansion.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• American sports are so relentlessly driven by statistics, analytics, predictions, and down-to-the-decimal quality rankings that when a genuine aberration appears on the field, there seems to be nothing else to do but descend into mania.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019

decimal

2 of 2 noun

• Seven-tenths written as a decimal is .7.
• The decimal.2 is equal to the fraction 2/10.
• But all that money -- guaranteed to the decimal -- isn’t putting a smile on his face.
  — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 19 May 2017
• Improvements at the race track are often measured in decimals.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• Those figures are added and divided by 2, then rounded to the nearest decimal.
  — Tony Wood, Philly.com, 2 May 2017
• To get the percentage figure, subtract 1 from the index figure to get the change as a decimal.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• In a fourth-grade classroom, students were converting fractions on a ruler marked with meters into decimals.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 15 June 2019
• The problem is that these things, even at the second decimal, accumulate over half a century.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
• The excitement level has been ratcheted up a few decimals by way of both teams boasting undefeated records through four weeks.
  — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 19 Sep. 2017
• The first group, when expressed in hex, sorts ascending when sorted in decimal and also in hex (as alphanumeric).
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2017
• Against worse teams in easier situations, those decimals might not matter.
  — Dan Woike, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• Fractions are like decimals, but they are written differently.
  — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017
• Of course there are plenty of disadvantages to a system without imaginary numbers and decimals.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2017
• The young girl is reading at a 12th-grade level and mastering math concepts such as fractions, decimals and even exponents.
  — Jasmine Viel, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
• This is, however, all a best-case scenario, with a nimble and proactive agency willing to work fast to fine-tune campaign performance down to the decimal.
  — Sergii Denysenko, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• So, humans have managed to memorize incredibly long sequences of pi decimals.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• The vast majority are irrational numbers, never-ending decimals that cannot be written as fractions.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2019
• But the larger problem is that bitcoin’s price is practically prohibitive because people don’t want to deal with decimals.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019
• Real examples and applications are messy, with ugly roots made of decimals or irrational numbers.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• Sometimes things immediately sparked my interest just by scanning Dewey’s decimals or walking down the aisles.
  — Nina West september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• The human brain is especially good at making either/or comparisons, and especially bad at decimals.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• Even more radically, the 10 could be intended as binary, making this the Xbox 2 in decimal.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 7 June 2017
• But for astronomers, decimals can make the difference between seeing something extraordinary and missing it.
  — Author: Caleb Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2019
• The kids are coming from the Decimal Diner, a math activity in which students tackle decimals by pretending to run a restaurant.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• Again, multiply the resulting decimal by 100.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
• By the window overlooking 14th Street’s bustle, two of the more advanced students converted fractions into decimals.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• The Complex Universe Functions can only do so much when they’re defined in terms of the real numbers — values that can be expressed as a conventional decimal.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Pitchfork’s distinctive review system down to the decimal let writers elevate or disembowel records with surgical precision.
  — Devin Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• In addition, fourth-graders in math typically are manipulating larger numbers and continuing to work on rounding, fractions and decimals, Kincaid said.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 29 Mar. 2018
• And many fail simple ability tests — the average teacher score on test questions involving the addition of two decimals was only 64 percent in Tanzania, for example.
  — Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur, Vox, 24 May 2018