How to Use rating in a Sentence
rating
noun- The school has an above-average academic rating.
- The article compares the fuel-economy ratings of various cars.
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The penultimate week of the is in the books and the final TV ratings are in.
—Troy Finnegan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
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Coors Field leads the way as a hitter’s best friend with a 1.755 rating.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 June 2022
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Two received a five-star rating, the highest on the scale.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
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The highest rating, EF 5, has wind gusts of more than 200 miles per hour.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
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Smith has come out of nowhere with the third-highest passer rating in the league (107.7).
—Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2022
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Recent polls show that Mr. Putin’s approval rating has risen since the start of the war.
—Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
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Shoppers seem to love this pair of boots with over 1,400 five-star ratings.
—Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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The 52 dBA, which is a standard noise rating, may be a drawback for some.
—Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
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The stakes are high for the address, as Biden goes into the speech with a low approval rating.
—oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2022
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Broward County Public Schools has earned an A rating for the first time in over a decade.
—Alecia Taylor, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
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The Cavs are second in the league with a 105.3 defensive rating.
—Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022
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This 35-petal rose has a garden rating of 8.5 and has a strong fruit and clove fragrance.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
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Also be mindful of both the weight rating of the bike rack and the T-bar underneath.
—Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
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The clay masks with the highest average ratings made it to this list.
—Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
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In The Post poll, the mayor’s approval rating in Wards 7 and 8 was lower than in any other part of the city.
—Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
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This drop though is about half the drop in Trump's very favorable rating.
—Harry Enten, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
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So, how did Davis and the Lakers, who own the league's best defensive rating in the playoffs, do it?
—Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
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The odds of them overcoming such a deficit against a team with the fourth-best defensive rating in the NBA (111.1) were bleak.
—Afentres, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
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Wednesday, Veleno had four goals, three assists and a minus-7 rating in 35 games with the Wings.
—Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2022
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The show struggled to get ratings traction in those bumpy early years.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
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As a result, Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk to an all-time low.
—Joe Silverstein, Fox News, 28 June 2022
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An answer appeared to come in the days that followed: The network had its worst ratings week in eight years.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 8 June 2023
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Love was put back in the game and threw an incomplete pass, which caused his passer rating to fall to 157.2.
—Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
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That’s got to sting for Trump, who cares deeply about television ratings.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
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Even flight attendants have put it to the test, and it’s racked up over 3,500 five-star ratings on Amazon.
—Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2024
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The stock sports a relative strength (RS) rating of only 14 which is very low.
—Adam Sarhan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
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Here’s another problem with Buy ratings—there is no room for improvement.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Tagovailoa in his career has led the NFL in passing yards, completion percentage and passer rating.
—Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
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