How to Use order of magnitude in a Sentence

order of magnitude

noun phrase

• And of course vaccines are an order of magnitude above in health need.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
• Even so, those figures are an order of magnitude below what most owners paid for their homes.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
• But the order of magnitude matters.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• His head seemed an order of magnitude larger than his body, and his brown hair was both thinning and receding.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Sekiyama claims that Spiber is an order of magnitude more expensive in the lab.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
• Starship could bring them into the low hundreds of dollars, nearly an order of magnitude.
  — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
• The friction of working together dropped by an order of magnitude.
  — Victor Orlovski, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
• The worst-case scenario, that the AI boom is a bubble, just got an order of magnitude more severe.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
• This growth happens in just three seconds, more than an order of magnitude faster than previous methods used to grow carbon foils.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025
• And Adidas has 8 times more sales than Peloton and an order of magnitude more product lines.
  — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
• The order of magnitude may seem plausible, but the question cannot be answered exactly.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2025
• The risks to humanity are of a different order of magnitude.
  — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 30 May 2026
• This set of evidence is more than an order of magnitude larger than previous findings, the study authors write.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• The sales of seemingly every item — appliances, cars and so on — were an order of magnitude higher than before the war.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Instagram was the outlier by an order of magnitude.
  — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
• For a semi-truck, the savings could be an order of magnitude higher, according to the company's case study.
  — Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2025
• The failure-to-file penalty is essentially an order of magnitude greater for the first six months a taxpayer is not in compliance.
  — Andy Weiner, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• CTOs not watching this ratio will wake up to a productivity gap an order of magnitude wide.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• This will enable passenger cars to increase in utility by roughly half an order of magnitude overnight with a software update.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• As a result, the scientists could reduce the input power the device required by roughly an order of magnitude.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
• The United States may be well ahead of its nearest competitors, but the top three global economies are an order of magnitude ahead of all the others.
  — Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 25 Nov. 2025
• Testing also found that cluster munitions were more than an order of magnitude more likely to inflict direct hits on the thin top armor of vehicles.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time, from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time, from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time, from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026
• The magnitude of the smaller shocks, which normally start about an order of magnitude below the main earthquake, tends to fall off over a period of time, from weeks to even decades.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Dec. 2025
• The intensity for that is, of course, an order of magnitude higher than for a regular-season game in early August.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
• An astonishing 51 cleared, an order of magnitude beyond a typical project where only a handful of names ever reach that stage.
  — Anthony Shore, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025