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:

  • 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.

  • These slits should be about one-eighth of an inch cut into the three-eighth-inch sewing margin around the pattern.

  • 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 ...

  • He estimated that at least one-eighth and perhaps as much as one-quarter of the blood in the left ventricle was expelled with each stroke of the heart.

  • Another brief summary emphasizes that Shanghai (a k a the New York of China) is the country's biggest manufacturing base, responsible for one-eighth of China's total annual industrial output.


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