How to Use fifth in a Sentence

fifth

noun
  • The bill is due on the fifth of each month.
  • She donated a fifth of her income to charity.
  • The government says a million people, representing a fifth of the population, have fled their homes.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Yet only one-third of households in the bottom fifth have an adult who is working, while 92 percent of the households in the middle fifth contain a working adult.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The Lancers added a run in the fourth and put up five in the fifth to break open the game.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Wakeland added three more runs in the fifth for a 10-4 lead.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
  • The goal was Pec’s fifth of the season, the assist Joveljic’s third.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
  • Eloy Jiménez led off the third with a homer and Zavala homered again in the fifth.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • Banks have the largest weight in the index and make up nearly a fifth of the 50 stocks.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Gonzalez got the last out of the fourth but gave up three runs in the fifth.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • But around a fifth of traders think a rate cut could come in March 2024.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • The first three strikeouts came in the third inning, and Cole pitched to Cedric Mullins in the fifth.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
  • Jung’s second home run capped the Rangers’ five-run fifth.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Trailing 3-0, Spanish Fort erupted for five runs in the top of the fifth to take the lead.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 12 May 2023
  • Snell got through the rest of the 35-pitch fourth but was replaced by righthander Randy Rodriguez in the fifth.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • Jonathan India hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth to put the Reds back ahead.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • As much as a fifth of the population died along the way.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Tanner Smith led off the fourth with a homer and Shade added a solo shot in the fifth to make it 4-1.
    oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
  • One man could take up a fifth of the team’s budget in the not-too-distant future.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
  • In Africa and South Asia a fifth of women with partners are abused each year.
    The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Scott cruised through the first four innings before giving up a run in the fifth.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • The team made two errors in the second inning and another in the fifth.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Ether shed over a fifth of its value before paring some of the slide to change hands at $2,342.
    Suvashree Ghosh, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Though only a fifth of them lived, the ones that survived have flourished.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That amounted to a little less than a fifth of their total.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2024
  • The All-Star catcher drove in another run with a double in the fifth.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
  • Department store Macy's will close around a fifth of its stores in the next three years.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Right now, Russia still holds around a fifth of this country.
    CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Less than a fifth of middle income earners (18%) said the same.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Lewis connected for a two-run blast — his Sun Belt-leading 20th of the season — in the fifth to make it 5-0.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 29 Apr. 2023

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