In a sentence
Six example sentences with percentage, each labelled with its topic.
A small percentage of the seeds germinated in the cold frame, so the team repeated the trial in warmer soil.
Science
Census pages show what percentage of the town worked the mills, and it rose sharply between two consecutive decades.
History
A tiny percentage of the museum's holdings hangs on the walls; the rest sits in climate controlled storage downstairs.
Art
Her free throw percentage climbed from sixty to eighty-five after a summer of shooting two hundred a day.
Basketball
The adviser charges a percentage of assets each year, so her fee grows whether or not the account does well.
Finance
Only a small percentage of household income goes to food now, compared with nearly half of it a century ago.
Economics
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
Each source is a published word list that contains percentage. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.