How to Use median in a Sentence

median

1 of 2 noun
  • The Fed’s own median forecast is that the fed-funds rate will be at 5%-5.25% at the end of the year.
    Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And in recent years, the median spends on projects has gone up.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The first phase will have 10% of the units set aside for those earning 80% or less of the area median income.
    Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The two children were in the center median around 4:30 p.m.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
  • While driving back from a ski trip, his car hit the median on the freeway.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The collision caused the Accord’s driver to spin out and hit a tree in the median.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The city has the fourth-largest population with consumer prices at the U.S. median.
    Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • By the end of 2022, SVB’s deposits were costing the bank almost twice as much as the median among a group of peers, according to Moody’s.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In El Paso, the median down payment fell the most over the past year, by about 1.8 percent, to 5.6 percent of purchase price.
    Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • All units will meet the same standards, but 30 of the tenants will be households with incomes below the median.
    Arkansas Online, 19 July 2023
  • San Diego saw gains of 61 percent by Case-Shiller math vs. 42 percent for its median.
    Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • At one point, six people could be seen fighting along the center median of the highway.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Antioch man was ejected into the center median and pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP said.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Its return on assets of 9.0% is over triple the sector median.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The median asking price for rent in Los Angeles is $3,400.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Homes in Cleveland cost three times less than the national median.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The year-over-year median pay mix remains constant at 39% cash and 61% equity, the research found.
    Maria Aspan, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Remember that the median is the midpoint, not the average: if all test-takers’ scores were lined up, the median would be the score right in the middle.
    Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the South has seen a lot of new construction coming to market, with the median asking rent falling by 1.2% from a year ago.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The San Francisco Square Apartments will serve seniors earning up to 80% of the area median income.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Investigators said a Mazda 6 with five people inside ran off the road and hit a tree in the median.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Two lanes will shut down during the day Saturday between 59th Street and Watt Avenue to allow crews to complete paving work in the median.
    Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The growers can sell dry Nacional for roughly $7,300 per metric ton—more than twice the global median for cacao.
    Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Over the past two years, the U.S. median rent rose 18%, but new data suggests that the cost to rent an apartment nationwide may be moderating.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • According to statistics kept by the program, about two-thirds of the money has gone to households at or below the area median income.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • To qualify, the homeowner must have an income 80% or below of the area median income.
    Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Swerdlow said that the apartments are for seniors earning at or below an average of 60% of the area median income.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Perched on the center median was a white Mercedes-Benz sedan, its speedometer stuck on 85 miles per hour, according to a police report.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Both videos show the passenger in the truck, wearing a light-colored hoodie and black pants, get out of the truck and start walking across the street to a median before turning around and walking back into the street.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The road was closed to civilians but an endless stream of police cars and ambulances with sirens wailing tore north, up the dusty median, toward the beleaguered town.
    Jack Dolan, Craig Nakano and Matt Hamilton, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
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median

2 of 2 adjective
  • What is the median price of homes in this area?
  • The median time on the market for an apartment has dropped to a near-record low of 26 days Salpoglou said, down from 39 days a year ago.
    Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • Currently, the median price per square foot in Puglia is about $121.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 June 2023
  • Our median home price over here in Porter Ranch is like $1.2 million, right?
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The median sale in central midtown last month was $1,437 per square foot.
    Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, first-time home buyers are older, with a median age of 36, Lautz said.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • That’s compared to a mere 2.1% rise in the median household income over the same period.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The grant funding is tailored toward parks in areas where at least half of the households earn less than 60% of the median income for the region.
    Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2023
  • All of the Southern states at the low end of excessive drinking rates also have the lowest median incomes in the nation.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • As the road began to curve west, the man’s silver Hyundai Sonata continued going straight, off the roadway and a median section of the exit ramp.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The act is meant to create more housing for middle-income renters who make 120% of an area’s median income or less.
    Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • This would be a one-year tax credit to middle-class families who sell a home priced below the area’s median home price to someone who will live in the home.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Take a look at what the median home price can get you in a handful of Wisconsin communities.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2023
  • The median price of a Maui home is $1.2 million, putting a single-family home out of reach for the typical wage earner.
    Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • That amounted to a median cut of more than $500 per home, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • For context, the median annual price growth was 1.6 percent in Q2.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2023
  • For those who may want to move out of their mother’s basement, rent has also more than doubled in the past 20 years while the median household income has increased just 10%, per the St. Louis Fed.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Students enter with a median standardized test score in the 74th percentile – a level that would not make the cut for most gifted programs.
    Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Last week, Taiwan's air force scrambled fighter jets after a group of 10 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait for the second time in a matter of days.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 June 2023
  • The median monthly rental price is $2,395, according to Zillow.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • That would have the same effect as lowering a buyer’s mortgage rate by more than 1.5 percentage points for two years on the median home, according to the White House.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • This neighborhood is near two of the city’s largest housing projects – both hot spots for violence – where the median income can be as low as one-tenth that of the county average.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since May, says the median pay for screenwriters has dropped 14% when adjusted for inflation over the past five years.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In the six months prior to homelessness, the median monthly household income for the homeless people surveyed was $960.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 June 2023
  • The national median sales price fell on an annual basis for the fifth month in a row, though fierce competition led to about one-third of homes selling for more than their list price.
    Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • The one-year tax credit for current homeowners would be available to people who own starter homes, defined as homes below the median home price in their county.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The median Hong Kong home costs almost 19 times the city’s median household income, according to a March report from think tank Demographia.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • With the median cost of one ticket at $8,599 on Thursday, according to data from ticket reseller VividSeats, Mendoza’s hoping to win her way in.
    Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This totals out to about a 4% to 5% pay cut based on off U.S. median household income before taxes, according to the Wells Fargo analysis.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 29 July 2023
  • The median occasion for an everybun is, probably, a Zoom meeting with a client or vendor.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 5 Dec. 2023

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