How to Use three-quarters in a Sentence

three-quarters

noun

• This means three-quarters of the remaining teams are from Europe.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 8 July 2026
• All singing and moving in three-quarters time at the halting dawn of the 20th century.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
• Don't pack your washer more than three-quarters full, as this will ensure that all of the clothes in the load have room to move and are thoroughly rinsed.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
• Kalshi said that about three-quarters of all visitors to the platform don't trade on contracts and only search to find current odds.
  — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 22 July 2026
• By the 42nd day of treatment, more than three-quarters of the patients had improved or stabilized.
  — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
• Garcia sits 93-94 and is up to 96 with a high-riding fastball from a high three-quarters slot.
  — Keith Law, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• His two-seamer is 91-94 from a low three-quarters slot with an average slider and fringy changeup.
  — Keith Law, New York Times, 15 July 2026
• But a study of Gen Z consumers found that more than three-quarters of those who paid upfront for a group expense never got repaid in full.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 7 July 2026
• Add three-quarters of the celery mixture to the potatoes and marinating liquid, dump in the mayo dressing, and gently stir to combine.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
• More than 85% of the portfolio’s assets are investment-grade in nature, and three-quarters is rated A or above.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
• The picture was nearly three-quarters finished when the artist died in 1669, leaving passages that expose his working process.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2026
• More than three-quarters of the state’s Long Island Sound beaches had consistently clean water last summer.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2026
• Nearly three-quarters of Northwestern undergraduates end up combining two or more fields.
  — Jamie Beaton, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• The company also reported a 20% bump in its supply chain emissions, which account for three-quarters of its total carbon footprint.
  — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
• Meanwhile, over three-quarters of economists polled by Reuters expect the Fed to hold interest rates steady for the rest of 2026.
  — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
• Nearly three-quarters of a century later, the ceasefire remains in place — even as both sides have exchanged cross-border gunfire over the years, and as a formal peace treaty remains elusive.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
• The figure is even higher for bathroom-specific appointments, where roughly three-quarters of visits involved the technology.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 July 2026
• Boise Auditorium District scoops up land The district now owns about three-quarters of the two-block grid along River Street.
  — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2026
• California is significant because the state supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than three-quarters of the fruits and nuts eaten in the United States.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
• The gift from Kelly and Shear consists of fifty-one works by Winters that represent almost three-quarters of all prints made by the artist in the 1980s.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 29 June 2026
• More than three-quarters of SK Hynix's revenue comes from RAM, including HBM.
  — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• Pennington is three-quarters of the way through a maximum 10-year term at the helm of the private partnership, which has about 55,000 employees.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 10 July 2026
• Amending the Constitution would take a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress ratification by three-quarters of the states.
  — Emily Chang, ABC News, 30 June 2026
• As of June 2025, the most recent month for which figures are available, nearly three-quarters of a million people were receiving public assistance.
  — Spencer Norris, ProPublica, 9 July 2026
• Almost all of the money held in 529 accounts belongs to higher-income families, and more than three-quarters belongs to the wealthiest 10 percent alone.
  — Darrick Hamilton, Fortune, 16 July 2026
• Oregon State right-hander Eric Segura (4) is a sinker/slider guy whose fastball is 93-96 and comes from a low three-quarters slot.
  — Keith Law, New York Times, 15 July 2026
• By the third competition cycle in 2023, foundation models had become the base layer for roughly three-quarters of winning proposals.
  — Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Wisconsin high school right-hander Tyson Grulkowski (6) comes from a very low three-quarters slot, working 92-94 with a curveball and a little bit of a changeup.
  — Keith Law, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• Nearly all Medicare beneficiaries have a primary care provider; over three-quarters can see these providers within two weeks; and patients in rural environments are able to receive care in a timely manner, too.
  — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 July 2026
• Organizers say there are 14 million tickets available across the Games and subsequent Paralympics — with three-quarters of those for the Olympics themselves.
  — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 24 July 2026