How to Use percentage in a Sentence

percentage

noun

• What percentage of your income do you spend on rent?
• The percentages of women completing high school and college were 95 percent and 52 percent, respectively.
• If a goalie saves 96 out of 100 shots, his save percentage is 96 percent.
• The higher the percentage, the longer the protection time is – up to six hours.
  — Hailey A. Luker, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
• Some clubs even slid you a percentage of the profit when a man bought you a drink.
  — Celine Saintclare, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• That’s the lowest percentage in the 13-year history of the survey.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• The percentage of results in is an estimate from the AP.
  — NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
• The percentage of young adults living at home climbed over 87% in the last 20 years, per Census data.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• The map below shows the percentage of clouds forecast at noon on Sunday.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some are required in the office fully, but that’s a tiny percentage.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• The stock is on course for its steepest daily percentage drop since listing in 2017.
  — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• To this day, Hawaii has one of the highest percentages of transgender people in the country.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• If a certain percentage of users’ taps test above that threshold, the water provider may need to make changes to its treatment process.
  — Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• But the Screen Writers Guild held out for a royalty — a percentage of the gross, not a flat fee — and declared the first-ever writers strike.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 June 2023
• Saber did not share how many or what percentage of employees were let go.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Stars also finished with the highest percentage of shots blocked as a team in the regular season at 28.18%.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• For body fat percentage, the Scale X skewed a little higher, but was still within one percent of the Omiron.
  — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Oettinger has had two good games in this series, but Philipp Grubauer has been just as wobbly (.865 save percentage).
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Favorites scored on four wins in 18 races over the past two days – dropping the favorite winning percentage to 46 percent for the season.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Despite no winner coming forward, the gas station will still get a percentage of the prize.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Boston boasts the best 3-point percentage in the playoffs, shooting 39.5 percent.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• In fact, a greater percentage of residents are urban dwellers — 90%— than anywhere in the country.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• That was the highest percentage of growth in 30 years, and the league recorded record revenue in merchandise and sponsorship sales.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• Are there any compelling reasons to limit the leasing percentage of units?
  — Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• The percentages reflect the weight given each category in making the list.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2023
• Trammell said Dallas’ drop in second-half field goal percentage had nothing to do with a slowdown in the team’s offense.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 May 2023
• The Trump and Biden administrations have both pressed states to keep a larger percentage of kids with birth parents or kin.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
• Nichol soon learned that a large percentage of victims were recovered within a few blocks of Simpson’s home.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Triple-doubles are not measured through game performance percentages or turnovers in a game.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The percentage of Black workers in the auto industry today is more than double their share of the workforce overall.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024