Example sentences for: cent

How can you use “cent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Unpaved streets and palapa-topped seafood shacks offer an intriguing contrast to the large and luxurious Grand Bay Hotel and golf course, just a 50-cent panga ride away on Isla Navidad.

  • Thirty-six per cent of the patients died, 27% were discharged home, 20% were discharged to a skilled or intermediate nursing care facility, 9% were transferred to a tertiary care facility and 8% were transferred to another hospital.

  • In an editorial Wednesday headlined "Gore's Burden," the Times of London said Vice President Al Gore's virtues are largely being ignored in the election campaign because of his "intense and inevitable association with President Clinton--to whom some 55 per cent of the electorate believe that Mr Gore is 'too close' for their comfort."

  • Michael Daniels, Bernie Devlin, and Kathryn Roeder of Carnegie Mellon University took the same studies on which Herrnstein and Murray based their estimate, and subjected them to a computer meta-analysis ("a powerful method of statistical analysis"-- The Bell Curve ). Their paper, which has not yet been published, says: "In brief, studies of IQ, and our reanalyses of them, suggest a narrow-sense heritability of 34 per cent and a broad-sense heritability of 46 per cent.

  • But if the value of the improved service is 1 cent per piece, then the gain from offering the discount is amplified to 1.2¢.


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