Example sentences for: one-quarter

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

  • (In 1994, 35 million soccer balls were produced there, one-quarter by children.)

  • In a familiar pattern, we have Grolsch bringing up the rear, with less than one-quarter the Taste-o-meter power of Busch , the No.

  • Under Clinton's plan "less than one-quarter of the cigarette-tax revenues remain for programs that help the less prosperous."

  • Among the alternative candidates: a left-wing politician expected to get one-quarter of the vote and, more exotically, an "excitable surgeon known simply as Eneas, who calls for Brazil to build an atomic bomb" (in the NYT 's words).

  • By V-J Day (15 August), when Japan officially surrendered, the Chinese Communists controlled an area inhabited by nearly one-quarter of the nation’s population.


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