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:

  • As a professional, he was an amoral whore; as a husband and a public figure, he was done in by the thing itself; then there's Behind the Oval Office . "The book is priced at $25--one-eighth of prostitute Sherry Rowlands' hourly fee--and ...

  • As a guess, this fraction could easily be in the neighborhood of onequarter to one-eighth.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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