How to Use metric in a Sentence

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• The other tab within the weight trends panel shows the rest of your metrics from the QardioBase X.
  — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Ravens’ offensive line is one of the best in the league by several metrics, if not the eye test.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• Why do this year’s metrics kill housing that wouldn’t be built for years?
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Your journey is personal, of course, so comb the Bankrate study for the lifestyle metrics that mean the most to you.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Cannabis, however, is not one of the metrics that My E Listing used to rank each state.
  — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• In the latest tracking week (April 21-27), the song improved in two of the three metrics: sales and radio airplay.
  — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 3 May 2023
• The Giant Huntsman has a 12-inch leg span — the biggest on this list by that metric alone — and a body length of about 2 inches.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The price of Brent crude oil, a key industry metric, has fallen nearly 9% over the past month.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• States and colleges will also use the metric to award scholarships and grants.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
• Aaron Rodgers was, by many metrics, the best NFL quarterback who’d ever lived.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
• Of course, founders’ ability to raise funds this fall depends a lot on the stage of their company, their metrics, and, of course, the sector.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• To see its crowning jewel dulling in some metrics has led investors to question how gains will be made in the future.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
• The limits are tied to metrics such as state personal income.
  — Chris Edwards, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• The advanced metrics that loved Butler last season don’t love him as much this season.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• Exit values, a standard metric of success for a startup, have been down across the board.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 3 May 2023
• The different grip variations and spin metrics make the sweeper unique.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
• The audit found that the city isn’t regularly checking that metric.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• To find the most and least safe places in the United States, a new study by WalletHub scored 182 cities (including at least two of the largest in each state) across three categories of metrics.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The metrics by which these figures are determined may vary from state to state, however.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
• The economy, by most metrics Europe's weakest before the war, has been left in tatters.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• But these eye-catching metrics don’t tell a complete story.
  — Dan Murphy, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
• For example, its claims of a large Gen Z audience came without any metrics to back it up.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• The Aztecs finished fifth in a conference rated the nation’s seventh best by the leading metrics, and the committee didn’t care.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
• However, the responses for these two metrics varied based on race, the report said.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 14 June 2023
• Its predecessors, the Wyze Scale and the Scale S, measure all the same metrics with the exception of muscle mass percentage.
  — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Before these devices are ready for prime-time, there are several other metrics that need to catch up.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2024
• But reform has no clear metric for success, and experts argue that a crisis decades in the making will take years, if not decades, to address.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The message should be that the location of allied troops—not just the percentage of spending on defense—is a vital metric.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2023
• Throughout much of the pandemic, the two metrics were about equal, but when the Fed began raising interest rates, things changed quickly.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
• And gross margins, a key profitability metric, continued to rise amid the AI boom, hitting 76.7% in the quarter.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024

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• In one metric sortable by date, the Aztecs rank as the nation’s No. 10 team since Dec. 21.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The hub is expected to produce up to 100 metric tons a day.
  — Forbes, 7 July 2022
• That means a power-to-weight ratio close to 500hp per (metric) ton.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• And the metric isn’t a perfect one for measuring the virus’ impact.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2022
• The display is also clear and easy to read, and the app goes into detail about what each metric means.
  — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
• This metric highlights how quickly VR prices have come down in just a few years.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
• The track also tops the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2022
• The metric measures the value of a company’s shares against the value of its assets.
  — Michael Msika, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2023
• Race tires, the kind that use metric sizing and aren't road legal, wrap 18-inch center-lock wheels.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• By that metric, 4 million acre-feet in cuts would cost $6 billion.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• If so, the objective or the target metric needs to be exactly that.
  — Vivek Rajagopal, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Of course, that’s probably not the only metric Harbaugh may be cribbing from The Good Book.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2022
• As a final point, revenue from the iPhone is the only metric that truly matters.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 29 Sep. 2022
• By just about any metric, new or old, when healthy, he is considered the best pitcher in baseball.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Jiménez was the slowest worker on the A’s staff in 2022, according to Statcast’s pitch tempo metric.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
• While the switch in venue should boost that metric slightly, the fact remains this is the best defense Tottenham will have faced at home all season.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
• To be able to just say it for the pure creativity of saying it, and really for the only metric to be honest.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 July 2022
• All those additional planes in the sky come with carbon emissions—roughly 800 metric tonnes of it, as of last year.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• The metric does not include errors, times reached on a fielder’s choice, dropped third strikes or sacrifice bunts.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022
• That’s the number of metric tons of electronic junk the world threw away in 2019, according to the most recent data from the United Nations.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022
• The new running power metric on the Apple Watch is similar.
  — PCMAG, 12 July 2022
• So which metric matters the most: If a certain number of people watch, or the right kind of people (dormant subscribers) watch?
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
• The metric ranks the Aztecs No. 29 overall after finishing last season 14th.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the hearing, Twitter’s lawyers said the lawsuit doesn’t turn on the amount of spam and fake accounts because the merger agreement didn’t make any promises about that metric.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 19 July 2022
• Tape measures with standard scales rather than metric scales are easiest to read.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
• So if the purpose is not necessarily in the specific science of what’s causing the disgust, what’s the goal of a metric like this?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
• Many workers say output is the only metric that matters.
  — Gretchen Tarrant, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
• If the only metric is how much the Global North agrees to pay amid high inflation, slow growth, and an energy crisis, then yes.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• But hospitalizations aren’t the only metric going up in the state.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2022
• That turned out to be 5% below analysts’ forecast, which was the worst miss for that metric in at least five years, according to FactSet.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024