How to Use decimal point in a Sentence

decimal point

noun

• It’s the kind of growth that adds zeroes on the left-hand side of the decimal point.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• The 4-star running back reached the final 4 before missing out on a spot in the game by mere decimal points.
  — David Wilson Diehards, ajc, 23 Nov. 2017
• My challenge to all mocksters out there is to use solid numbers next year and avoid the decimal points.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2018
• That $399 — no decimal point — is part of a bid by the brand to cultivate a hipper image and attract younger drinkers.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• In the wake of his firing are students whose chances of going pro in baseball are less than a decimal point of a fraction of a fraction.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 21 Mar. 2018
• Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• An hour after the game, the Cavaliers’ trainer was still plucking decimal points out of James’ skin.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• But [DSPs] could lose another zero and move that digit closer to the decimal point.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Turns out, a decimal point on the bill was accidentally moved.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2017
• The school’s math progress may not look like much: a small improvement amounting to a single decimal point increase from spring 2019 to the spring of this year, according to state test results.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• Jones, however, doesn’t prefer to talk numbers, whether it’s regarding his stats or the numbers of zeroes on the left side of the decimal point on his next contract.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• The reason for the expensive blunder: a misplaced decimal point.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2021
• This is equivalent to the number 1 written behind a decimal point and 20 zeroes.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
• And a final tip for employers coming up with ways to help savings: Stay away from percentages or decimal points, which don't jibe with the human brain.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Mat Ishbia made a fortune in the mortgage business, where risks are calculated down to the final decimal point.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Baghdad is where algebra, the decimal point, and the first method to calculate the radius of the Earth were invented in ancient times—and Iraq, Blasim feels, is a rightful heir to the sci-fi tradition.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2017
• That could mean probing the Universe to greater precision, where every decimal point in your measurement counts.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• This number shows the last three digits of a station’s air-pressure reading to the nearest tenth of a millibar (mb); the last number actually comes after the decimal point.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
• The internal document projected the yield on raw material to the decimal point and earnings to the dollar.
  — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
• In a field in which lives turned on tiny differences in engineering and chance three or four places to the right of the decimal point, a questionable heart was not a remotely tolerable risk.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 July 2019
• Columbia County’s 911 agency has learned the hard way that an errant decimal point can make an enormous difference.
  — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
• Adding zeros at the end of a number increases its magnitude, with the help of a decimal point, adding zeros at the beginning decreases its magnitude.
  — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• If that happens, there will be laughter from Minneapolis to Miami, and more importantly, the checks from television partners will have fewer digits to the left of the decimal point.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• The revised figure when calculated with decimal points is 18.4 percent.
  — Glenn Kessler, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Correction: The original version of this article misplaced a decimal point, lamentably.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• With measurements, performance, and pricing that are within a decimal point or two of the competition, the GV70 stands out with a dazzling sense of style and a fastidious attention to the details that define luxury.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2021
• Placing infinitely many digits to the right of the decimal point corresponds to infinite precision.
  — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Greg’s confidence is boosted only slightly in the presence of Connor, who’s polling at 1 percent in his presidential bid and practically shriveling at the idea of dropping to decimal points.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
• Researchers have found that the number 4 is underrepresented as the first digit after the decimal point in some companies’ unrounded earnings-per-share data.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• The Logic of Time The modern acceptance that there exists a continuum of real numbers, most with infinitely many digits after the decimal point, carries little trace of the vitriolic debate over the question in the first decades of the 20th century.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024