How to Use probability in a Sentence

probability

noun

• The probability of a coin coming up heads is one out of every two tries.
• There is a low probability that you will be chosen.
• With the dark clouds moving in, rain seems more like a probability than a possibility.
• There is some probability of rain tomorrow.
• The site gives the Suns a 45% win probability in the NBA game.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• The site gives the Suns a 40% win probability in the game in Salt Lake City.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
• The Tigers had a win probability of 99.4% in the bottom of the fifth.
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 23 Aug. 2021
• Most of the rest of the state has a 70 to 80 percent probability.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 Apr. 2023
• What is the probability that all three of the points will be in the same hemisphere?
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2022
• The site gives the Bucks a 57% win probability in Game 6.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• The site gives the Bucks a 55% win probability in Game 3.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• The site gives the Rockets a 9% win probability in the game.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2022
• The older and bigger a whale got, the greater the probability of such a blast.
  — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
• What is the probability that two copies of die A roll a sum that beats two copies of die B?
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• But in all probability, this would be in the first half of next year.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• When the probability is low, the chances of water having a path all the way through the stone is low.
  — Allison Whitten, Wired, 11 July 2021
• The site gives the Trail Blazers a 7% win probability against the Suns.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• What this means for OKC is that there’s a high probability that the team ends up earning a spot in the play-in.
  — Nick Crain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Last week, the market had been split on the probability of a May cut.
  — Chloe Taylor,jenni Reid,sawdah Bhaimiya,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
• The price of that contract changes with the probability of the outcome.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• The site gives the Mystics a 30% win probability in Game 1 of the series.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
• The site gives the Knicks and 18% win probability to defeat the Suns in Phoenix on Friday night.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
• That win probability chart did soar all over the board, just in the ninth inning alone.
  — Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2021
• The site gives the Bengals a 19% win probability in the NFL playoff game.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
• The couple are more bullish—Chen puts the probability as high as 98%.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Air Raid stretches the field, creates one-on-ones and leads to high probability throws as well.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
• These probabilities are strongest along the Gulf Coast and for most of Texas.
  — Nikki Nolan, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
• The probability for converting a first down is low, but bad things happen when a punter’s heels are on the edge of the end line.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• Gavin Sheets’ line drive to right field in the fifth inning, with a 65% hit probability, was the only ball the Padres put in play in the first eighth innings that had better than a 35% chance of being a hit.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
• The researchers even suggest there’s a 99.4% probability that the detection of these compounds wasn’t a fluke – a figure that, with repeat observations, could reach the gold standard for statistical certainty in the sciences.
  — Oliver Swainston, Space.com, 28 June 2025