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.
• Rain amounts look very light, around a tenth of an inch in the damper spots.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021
• In New York, plaintiffs can take up to a tenth of a debtor’s pay.
  — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 8 June 2020
• One reason is cost: A tenth didn’t wear sunscreen due to the price.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• The process starts with rolls of metal foil a tenth of the thickness of human hair.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• And Newark has received a measly tenth of an inch of recorded snow.
  — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Rain totals for the day are mainly a tenth to a quarter of an inch.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• But that reservoir is just a tenth the size of Lake Powell.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• That’s a tenth of the protection on the latest Leopard 2s.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The newborn calf marks the tenth to be born at the Henry Doorly Zoo and the fourth in the zoo's current giraffe barn.
  — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year’s take.
  — Joshua A. Bickel, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• But the scarier question is what each tenth of a degree will do.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• It’s been a wet day, with many spots receiving around half an inch, give or take a tenth or so.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Rainfall could total a tenth to a quarter-inch with the highest amounts south of D.C. and lowest amounts to the north.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• New Zealand's equivalent bond yield climbed more than a tenth of a point to 4.574%.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 8 June 2023
• That happened in the last fiscal year, which is why the tax rate was cut by two tenths of a percentage point, to 4.05 ...
  — Amanda Fisher, National Review, 29 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, east of the metro, only a trace to a tenth of an inch is likely, the weather service said.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
• The forecast for areas around Memphis are anywhere from a tenth of an inch of ice, up to a half inch of ice.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
• The coastal North Bay could record a few hundredths to a tenth of an inch of rain, according to the weather service.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
• Accumulations of ice will range from a trace to around a tenth of an inch.
  — courant.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2023
• Over multiple attempts, the Drag Strip drive mode proved worth its weight in gold, saving a tenth or two on the way to 60 mph.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Shaving a tenth of second off here, or a few thousands off there can add up over time.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• On a month-to-month basis, the wholesale price index fell by a tenth of a percentage point.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The storm could bring up to 9 inches of snow, as well as sleet accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• In the past, engineers might have argued about how to shave tenths of a gram from multiton probes.
  — Byadam Mann, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
• That’s far more than previous attempts, but still less than one-tenth of the power used to start the process, Zylstra said.
  — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
• That’s far more than previous attempts, but still less than one-tenth of the power used to start the process, Dr. Zylstra said.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024