How to Use cent in a Sentence

cent

noun

• A dime is worth 10 cents.
• And that debt is trading at about 5 cents on the dollar.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• The current gas price per gallon is six cents less than the same time last month.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2024
• The most recent was Measure M, the half-cent sales tax hike that was approved in 2016.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Then there are the locations over which around 75 per cent of the filming takes place.
  — James Medd, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
• Still, claims that once traded for just a few cents on the dollar have surged in value.
  — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• In other words, not a cent will be billed to taxpayers.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Bluefin were considered fun sport fish, but the flesh sold for about five cents a pound, less than trout.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Compared with White men, Black women earn 67 cents on the dollar, not 56.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• Wages increased by an average of 12 cents, or 0.4%, in June.
  — Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2023
• Shares of the company fell as much as 40% to about 18 cents during Monday trading in New York.
  — Sarah Holder, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The new goal would imply spending cuts and tax increases worth about 5 per cent of GDP.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
• In Illinois state prisons, the cost of a pack of instant ramen now costs 32 cents — a 68% increase from the year before.
  — Alex Arriaga, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The cuts reduced the value of rations to about 27 cents per day, according to the UN human rights agency.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 7 July 2023
• In the past week, gas has risen by 26 cents in New Mexico and by 21 cents in Colorado, according to the driving club.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
• That’s an increase of roughly a hundred per cent from normal years.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• Drivers using the app can expect to pay 85 cents an hour in most areas downtown.
  — Ashley Savage, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2023
• People wrote to him, paying 40 cents a page, and received scans of his responses.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Proponents of the 1 cent sales tax increase, like those of the stormwater tax, point out that San Diego’s tax burden is less than in other cities.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The company's profit compared with a loss of $19 million a year earlier and worked out to 18 cents per share.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 9 May 2023
• The tracking units will cost less than 10 cents each next year and the receivers generally cost less than fifty dollars.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Today, Women in the United States make a little over 80 cents for every dollar a man makes.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• For a limited time, the ice cream and fast food restaurant chain is offering Blizzards for 85 cents.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• In January, support for it was polling above sixty per cent.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• In Black households, ratings are up by more than seventy per cent.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• The smallest 12-month decline in gas prices was in the state of Washington, where the average is only down by 50 cents a gallon.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 June 2023
• Despite enormous strides across sectors, women still earn about 83 cents on the man’s dollar—yes, even now.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• The per-share earnings was 29 cents, which beat an analyst estimate by 4 cents.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Now Betelgeuse has begun to behave oddly again, brightening by 50 per cent in the last month or so.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• That was down 39% from a year ago and short of analyst estimates of 73 cents per share according to FactSet.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024