Example sentences for: one-tenth

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

  • UPI currently employs 150 journalists, about one-tenth of its 1982 staff, plus 120 stringers.

  • Under a 99-year lease, the US acquired about one-tenth of the land area of Bermuda for the development of naval and air bases, modernizing the defenses of Britain’s “Gibraltar of the West.”

  • It's no surprise that CNN (the prime offender) didn't spend one-tenth the time on the Atlanta massacre.

  • Palestinian per capita income has fallen to $1,400 per year, one-tenth of Israel's.

  • Fill vials and centrifuge tubes with the 10% HCl solution and allow to stand a few minutes; fill all larger containers to about one-tenth capacity with HCl solution and swirl so that the entire surface is bathed.


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