How to Use tenth in a Sentence

tenth

noun
Definition of tenthnext
  • He was tenth in line.
  • I only paid a tenth of what you did for that jacket.
  • He traded stocks for one tenth their face value.
  • The bond rate would drop one-tenth of a mill, to 1.319 mills.
    — David Ibata, ajc, 29 June 2018
  • That's like a tenth of a percent of the tweets about him.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 18 June 2019
  • The star is half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The tenths were drowned out by the roar of the crowd that grew over the next two minutes.
    — Phil Knight, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Rain amounts look very light, around a tenth of an inch in the damper spots.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021
  • La Mesa saw less than a tenth of an inch, and no rain fell in the desert.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • In New York, plaintiffs can take up to a tenth of a debtor’s pay.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 8 June 2020
  • The Guardians went on to win in the tenth, after the Yankees went scoreless.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In 2016, the gold in the world’s e-waste equaled more than a tenth of the gold mined globally that year.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Maybe the birds were set off by a one-tenth of a degree change in the ocean’s waters.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • One reason is cost: A tenth didn’t wear sunscreen due to the price.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • That works out to a tiny bit more than one tenth of one half of one percent.
    — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The process starts with rolls of metal foil a tenth of the thickness of human hair.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And that was my little tenth of a percent of a thing that stayed in the closet.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Michael Jordan’s first deal with Nike was worth less than a tenth of that.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • That said, there's no need to shell out extra cash just to save a few tenths of an ounce.
    — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
  • In other places, small gaps were opened up, some as small as a tenth of an acre.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Rainfall totals stay on the light side around a tenth of an inch again.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
  • And Newark has received a measly tenth of an inch of recorded snow.
    — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Rain totals for the day are mainly a tenth to a quarter of an inch.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • But that reservoir is just a tenth the size of Lake Powell.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a tenth of the protection on the latest Leopard 2s.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Reese had her third double-double of the season and the tenth of her career.
    — Chris Cole, azcentral, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The newborn calf marks the tenth to be born at the Henry Doorly Zoo and the fourth in the zoo's current giraffe barn.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year’s take.
    — Joshua A. Bickel, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Enhanced safety systems now cut power to lines within a tenth of a second.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Up to one inch of snow or sleet and a tenth of an inch of ice is possible for areas under the winter weather advisory.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024

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