Wondering how to use Tenths in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Tenths meaning
plural of tenth
Using Tenths
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tenth
- In the example corpus, tenths often appears in combinations such as: tenths of, few tenths, of tenths.
Context around Tenths
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tenths
- In this selection, "tenths" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, six, four, off, adrift and ahead stand out and add context to how "tenths" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few tenths of a and a half tenths ahead of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tenths" sits close to words such as albemarle, ald and allister, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tenths
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A few tenths of a degree is enough to cause extreme heat and global discomfort. (15 words)
The national rate also fell by two-tenths of a percentage point in October to 60.2 percent. (18 words)
Hamilton crosses the line with a 1:28.766 and Russell is a couple of tenths off that. (18 words)
Now, after a rule change in 2022, Alpine remains a good few tenths off the pace of leaders Red Bull and onward, but a race weekend is often back on teams like Ferrari, Aston Martin and Mercedes that are scrapping for second place. (43 words)
Seemingly faster than a typical dirt track, accuracy and positioning will be paramount to attaining a good time here, with several jumps also posing a challenge as well as an opportunity to scrape off additional tenths of a second. (39 words)
Borrowers reducing spending in other areas to pay their loans could reduce economic growth in terms of gross domestic product by “a couple of tenths of a percent,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alonso's fastest lap in qualifying was just over four-tenths of a second shy of Verstappen's, a slight improvement on his gap with Red Bull pole-sitter Sergio Perez in Jeddah.
At mid-afternoon, the Canadian dollar was down nearly two-tenths of a United States cent compared to Monday's close.
Borrowers reducing spending in other areas to pay their loans could reduce economic growth in terms of gross domestic product by “a couple of tenths of a percent,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
But that 3,200 feet, about six-tenths of a mile, puts much of the oil islands off the Long Beach coast within the buffer zone.
It broke the old record, set in 2019, by six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, an unusually wide margin.
Now, after a rule change in 2022, Alpine remains a good few tenths off the pace of leaders Red Bull and onward, but a race weekend is often back on teams like Ferrari, Aston Martin and Mercedes that are scrapping for second place.
Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw then said around 8:15 p.m., a person's body was found in the woods about two-tenths of a mile from the car.
Russell finished three tenths adrift of Leclerc while Hamilton, who made way for the team’s Danish junior driver Frederik Vesti in the opening running, was half-a-second back.
Seemingly faster than a typical dirt track, accuracy and positioning will be paramount to attaining a good time here, with several jumps also posing a challenge as well as an opportunity to scrape off additional tenths of a second.
The department reported the share of Coloradans participating in the labor force fell to 68.4 percent, down two-tenths of a point from the previous month.
The national rate also fell by two-tenths of a percentage point in October to 60.2 percent.
Torres teased apart those scant seconds, down to tenths of a second, to show Pierce attempted to swerve away from Navarro in his Mustang, which implied he didn’t act with malice.
A few tenths of a degree is enough to cause extreme heat and global discomfort.
And in a race that will likely be decided by tenths of a percentage point, the unprecedented double-whammy could emerge as the “October surprise” that ultimately returns Trump to the White House.
Annual Core CPI Adjustment: The forecast would lower the year-on-year change in the core CPI by two tenths to 3.6%.
Carlos Sainz is on his lap but goes deep in the first sector and is five tenths off the quickest in that section.
Hamilton crosses the line with a 1:28.766 and Russell is a couple of tenths off that.
He had a six-second lead within eight laps and even when Pérez was in clean air to come at him, the Mexican was still being beaten by a full six-tenths of a second per lap.
If you exceed the 36 months, Social Security will dock about four-tenths of 1% for further months.
In the end he was around three and a half tenths ahead of Verstappen with Oscar Piastri a little further behind.
Common combinations with tenths
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tenths of 25×
- few tenths 9×
- of tenths 6×
- two tenths 6×
- three tenths 5×
- tenths off 3×
- tenths to 3×
- tenths adrift 2×
- seven tenths 2×
- and tenths 2×