How to Use tenth in a Sentence

tenth

noun

• He was tenth in line.
• I only paid a tenth of what you did for that jacket.
• He traded stocks for one tenth their face value.
• Seven-tenths of an inch of snow so far.
  — David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
• That was just two tenths off of the daily record.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• His call was correct by three-tenths of an inch.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
• Rain amounts look very light, around a tenth of an inch in the damper spots.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021
• Rain amounts will likely be around a tenth to half an inch.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
• Colin said a trace of snow means less than a tenth of an inch.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
• The ball was outside the strike zone by one-tenth of an inch.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
• That’s less than a tenth of 1% of mass shootings.
  — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• A little over a tenth of an inch of rain is likely.
  — Alyssa Andrews, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• That works out to a tiny bit more than one tenth of one half of one percent.
  — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2020
• The lot is about three-tenths of a mile from Aronimink.
  — Joe Holden, CBS News, 8 May 2026
• Just a tenth of those who lost coverage had it the next year.
  — Alexandra Olgin, NPR, 8 May 2025
• La Mesa saw less than a tenth of an inch, and no rain fell in the desert.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• In other places, small gaps were opened up, some as small as a tenth of an acre.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
• The tenths were drowned out by the roar of the crowd that grew over the next two minutes.
  — Phil Knight, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• Rainfall totals stay on the light side around a tenth of an inch again.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
• In the third and sixth year, the second tenth is set aside for the poor (ma'aser ani).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 5 Sep. 2017
• The top four cars were covered by less than one-tenths of a second.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 July 2026
• Many of the calls in question boil down to a couple of tenths of an inch.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• That said, there's no need to shell out extra cash just to save a few tenths of an ounce.
  — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
• Four-tenths of a second remained.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026
• Most places will see less than a tenth of an inch for the remainder of the day.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 27 June 2026
• Less than a tenth of an inch of new rainfall is expected.
  — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Mar. 2026
• The star is half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
• Maybe the birds were set off by a one-tenth of a degree change in the ocean’s waters.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• Rain totals for the day are mainly a tenth to a quarter of an inch.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• One-tenth of an inch or more of ice is possible in some areas.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 24 Dec. 2025