'percent' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'percent' with 20 example sentences.
- percent noun
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: a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent
Eighty percent of English words come from other languages.
Sixty-nine percent of adult Americans are either overweight or obese.
I agree one hundred percent.
Ninety percent of all drivers think they're above average.
Seventy percent of a fried egg is water.
Ten is ten percent of one hundred.
Prices will rise over 20 percent.
I get a three percent commission on anything I sell.
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
I'm 100 percent sure of that.
We are the 99 percent.
More than 40 percent of the students go to university.
The price of rice rose by three percent.
There's a hundred percent chance of rain.
His salary was increased by ten percent.
My income has decreased ten percent.
They gave me a ten percent discount.
The amount of carbon dioxide has increased by 10 percent.
Apparently there's a cancellation charge of 30 percent.
Nearly 80 percent of the land is mountains.