Example sentences for: nine-tenths

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

  • The truth is that almost all writing about first ladies chews more than it bites off--including, I think, nine-tenths of the ink we've all spilled over HRC.

  • A milliwarhol , or about nine-tenths of a second of fame, might appropriately be named after the tyke whose rescue became a brief focus of attention last summer after he fell through the hole of an outhouse.

  • 13 These changes would increase revenue by another nine-tenths of a billion dollars.

  • (Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.)

  • I agree with nine-tenths of Paul Krugman's "In Praise of Cheap Labor."


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