Example sentences for: one-eighth

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

  • They tried more than a half-dozen restaurants and pizza parlors and found them variously full, out of food, closed for lack of water for washing up, and charging one-eighth of a month's salary for a single pizza.

  • A partially successful cloning attempt by Dr. Evil's henchman, Number 2 (Robert Wagner), has produced a true heir: a one-eighth Dr. Evil replica (Verne J. Troyer) dubbed "Mini-Me" who's like a distillation of the archvillain's most feral impulses.

  • If General Motors knew that one-tenth of its sales and one-eighth of its profits came from two companies, you can bet GM would be constantly worried about keeping those two companies happy.

  • It has been shown that although the Fugu rubripes genome is only one-eighth the size of the human genome, it contains a comparable complement of protein-encoding genes [ 43 ] . We found five sequences on different scaffolds in the pufferfish genome that encode predicted proteins containing a TOX-like HMG-box (Fig.

  • The Banquet Honey-Roasted Turkey Meal offered literally a single slice of cold-cut-style turkey--about one-eighth of an inch thick--on a sparse bed of hopelessly damp and chewy stuffing.


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