How to Use average in a Sentence

average

1 of 3 noun

• His work has been above the average.
• On average, women live longer than men.
• Prices have increased on average about eight percent.
• Take all these temperatures and find their average.
• An average of 2,000 people attended the show each night.
• The average of 16, 8, and 6 is 10.
• The second is to raise the age of full retirement, which at 67 is already three years above the OECD average.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
• The three bucks, in hot pursuit of the doe, ran past Garrett at a dead sprint — all sporting racks that were well above average for the area.
  — Hayden Sammak, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
• Temps will continue to rise to near average for this time of the month, with a high of 77 expected.
  — oregonlive, 14 June 2023
• The average of the five judges’ scores went down as the individual dunk score.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
• That’s around 11 percent more emissions than the number the other study found was the U.S. average.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• That, too, exceeded the average of 56 for the sixth day of October.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
• The plan serves an average of 4 minutes of unskippable ads per hour.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 July 2023
• The wolves generally mate in February and give birth to an average of four to five pups in April.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Padres’ deal with Bally’s averages $60 million per year.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• The city’s return rate is just 44% vs. national averages that are at about 50%.
  — Mark Davidson, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
• Teens in particular spend an average of nearly two hours a day on the app.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• The cancer risk is 11 per million, more than 2½ times the national average.
  — Mark Nichols, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The average for all accounts, including those offered by the nation’s largest banks, was less than 0.1%.
  — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Following an 11 cent spike to its statewide average this week, Copper state counties saw changes on each side of the spectrum.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Cougars are the largest members of the cat family found in Washington, with adult males weighing an average of 140 pounds.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 30 July 2023
• Indeed, the top 10 executives have been at the Apollo an average of 17 years.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• The good news is that Americans are paying a lot less for gas than the first day of summer last year — even in Washington, where the average was $5.54 a gallon a year ago.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 21 June 2023
• That is down from the five-year quarterly average of 2 million square feet, according to Trepp.
  — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The state, which is facing a massive shrinking of its ice coverage, is heating two to three times faster than the global average.
  — Clem De Pressigny, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
• And an average of two local election officials per day have left their jobs since the 2020 election.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• Tuition increased by an average of 5% this school year.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• And then the third criteria is that the mortality rate, the death rate, should be double the average, meaning, for adults, from one per ten thousand a day to two per ten thousand a day.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• Last fall, there were an average of more than 9,500 Medicare ad airings daily, according to KFF, along with a rise in complaints about them.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Razorbacks held them 26.9 points under their average.
  — Bob Holt, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024

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average

2 of 3 adjective

• Sales were about average for the industry on the whole.
• Do you know what the average person earns?
• The average woman lives longer than the average man.
• She thought the performance was just average.
• Average grades are not good enough to get you into graduate school.
• She was an average student.
• The investment had a higher average return.
• Take all these temperatures and find their average temperature.
• The average age of the company's employees is 36.
• The average length of stay ran from six months to a year.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2024
• That’s a lot more than the average American makes, to say the least.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• They were tracked for more than three years on average.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
• The average three-shot compound bow group for the field was 3.20 inches.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 June 2023
• The average price here, though, is fairly steep at $20.39.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 June 2023
• An average stargazer can’t tell the changing distance of the moon from night to night.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2023
• On average Latinas make about 52 cents to the dollar that white men make.
  — Angel Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• On average, the drive out there from Minois should take 20-25 minutes.
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
• According to the program, the average cost of a retrofit funded by EBB is about $5,500.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• On average, the patients had more than four such crises per year prior to treatment.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Based on the average minute audience, night one of this year’s show was up 26% over night one from last year, while night two was up 30% over last year.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• The average number of cousins is declining in the U.S. and much of Europe, and the same trend is predicted to hit other parts of the world in the coming decades.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
• The average credit card rate hit a high of 20.77 percent this week, according to CreditCards.com.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• His resume gives his opinion a heavier weight than the average artist.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• Living in Graceland with Elvis and his entourage, she’s seen to have even less freedom than an average teen.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Wage growth cooled slightly, with average hourly earnings growing 0.3% the month before and 4.3% over the prior year.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 June 2023
• Parts of the central and southern Rockies and the central Plains will lean wetter than average this winter.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• So far, the power bank has an average rating of four out of five stars, with hundreds singing its praises in the review section.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• The adjustable seat and the roomy cockpit are comfortable enough for the average person to paddle for a long period of time.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 2 June 2023
• On average, Americans live 76 years—only 85% of them in good health.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 June 2023
• Your average Uber or Lyft ride cost 50% more this summer than before the pandemic.
  — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023

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average

3 of 3 verb

• What figure do you get when you average the amount of rainfall for the last three months?
• The teacher averaged the students' grades.
• Then everybody wants to talk about it; over half of US adults average an hour a week.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
• The Tigers, who average 192.7 rushing yards per game, will be up against one of the nation's top run-stop defenses.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 22 Sep. 2023
• But punch outs are again near an all-time high, with each team averaging about 8.7 strikeouts per game.
  — David Brandt, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• November is the first month of the season in which D.C. averages some snow — albeit just 0.1 inches.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Kelly wasn’t fully pleased with a run game that averaged 5.7 yards even with Moore getting sacked five times.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Overall, Thomas hit seven of the eight longest homers and averaged nearly 433 feet per shot.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Compare those prices with fares from Juneau and Sitka, which have averaged $100 one-way all summer long.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• Rudolph has brought the deep ball back to Pittsburgh and avoided Trubisky-like turnovers as the Steelers have averaged 32 points per game during his two starts.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The news outlet also said Cruise was averaging 1,000 trips a day in the city, with tens of thousands of people on the company’s wait list.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• Banks averaged more than 10 points and nearly six rebounds a game in his junior season.
  — Dominic Faria, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• The team ranked fourth in the league offensively, averaging 380 yards per game, but did not have similar success on the other side of the ball.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2023
• The rooms are spacious, averaging over 600 square feet, and serve as a perfect jumping-off point to explore the tawny Yorkville neighborhood.
  — Kyle Beechey, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
• Punter Ethan Evans goes long Evans, a rookie, averaged 54 yards for two punts, including one that traveled 72 yards.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• His fastball, which averaged 98 mph last season, has been bestowed a maximum 80-grade on the scouts' scale.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• Before showing some life in the second half against the Ravens, Burrow had averaged under 3 yards per dropback over the first six quarters.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• Men average a touch more than 2 hours per day, while women complete a little more than 4 hours daily.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
• Those taking a placebo averaged more than five hot flashes in the same period.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
• Temperatures are close to average with highs in the upper 70s and lower humidity (dew points in the 50s).
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• What doesn’t matter: Extra weight When the Chiefs draft an offensive tackle under Veach, that player has averaged 310.9 pounds — tied for the third-lowest mark in the league.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• The rotation of hosts who have appeared have pulled in about 50% of the 3 million-plus viewers that Carlson averaged each night, according to Nielsen data.
  — Stephen Battaglio Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 13 June 2023
• Large issuers tend to charge slightly higher late fees, averaging $32, the CFPB said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• The veteran is averaging 5.1 yards per carry and has scored two touchdowns.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• And like Dobbins, he’s delivered when healthy, with both backs averaging more than 5 yards per carry in their careers.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2023
• The Bruins limited Utah’s offense that averages 81.3 points per game to its second-lowest scoring night of the season.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Those gains averaged 13% over a holding period of roughly eight months.
  — Lu Wang, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• Since 2004, the report found, newspaper closures average two a week country-wide.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Year to date, openings are averaging 9.74 million per month, BLS data shows.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• When Miami has the ball Cristobal brought in Dawson in hopes of increasing the production for an offense that averaged 23.6 points per game last year.
  — Grant Gaspard, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024