'quarter' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'quarter' with 20 example sentences.

quarter noun

: one of four equal parts

: a district of a city having some distinguishing character

: (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided

: a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour

: one of four periods into which the school year is divided

: a fourth part of a year; three months

: one of the four major division of the compass

: a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

: a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

: a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar

: an unspecified person

: the rear part of a ship

: piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

: clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent

quarter verb

: provide housing for (military personnel)

: pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him

: divide into quarters

: divide by four; divide into quarters

Squirrels only find a quarter of the nuts that they bury.

I have my supper at a quarter past seven.

It's a quarter to three.

Do you have a quarter I could borrow?

I've already translated a quarter of the book.

Nearly a quarter of Italians are over the age of 65.

Three quarters of the members of this club are girls.

My team has never advanced beyond the quarter-finals.

Three quarters of the surface of the Earth is water.

Your ship sails at a quarter past four.

Apple sold 75 million iPhones this quarter.

He'll come at quarter past three.

I want to go back to my quarters.

Three quarters of them agreed.

I spent more than three-quarters of my summer vacations traveling.

I ate a quarter of the cake.

A loss in third-quarter revenues was predicted.

Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?

It's about a quarter mile from here.

Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

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