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.

  • A talk show is cheap to produce--one-fourth the cost of a news show, one-tenth the cost of a drama--and immensely profitable.

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

  • Can you imagine who we'd turn to if our country was one-tenth as screwed up as theirs?

  • The latter was a reasonable position during the 1930s, when the rate on Treasury bills was less than one-tenth of 1 percent; it is an arguable claim right now for Japan, where interest rates are about 1 percent.


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