proportion

In a sentence

Six example sentences with proportion, each labelled with its topic.

• Only a small proportion of the dough is starter, but that fraction decides how sour the finished loaf tastes.

  Cooking

• Housing now takes a larger proportion of a young worker's pay than food, transport, and heating combined.

  Economics

• Only a tiny proportion of a marathon plan is speed work; the rest of the mileage stays deliberately easy.

  Fitness

• Only a small proportion of the seeds germinated in the salty soil, roughly one in twelve across all plots.

  Science

• Keep the proportion of your savings in any single stock below a tenth, whatever the company's prospects.

  Finance

• A high proportion of her points came from free throws, nearly a third over the whole season.

  Basketball

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More Academic words

• substitute
• philosopher
• grant
• distributed
• absorb
• participate
• achievement
• economy
• format
• approximately
• bias
• status