How to Use eighth in a Sentence

eighth

noun

• An eighth of a pound is two ounces.
• In the eighth, the Rangers had the bases loaded with less than two out for the third time.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 30 June 2017
• Hillary’s people were on the 17th floor and the Trump planners were on the eighth.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2016
• On Friday, Donovan hit a pair of two-run homers, one in the first and one in the eighth.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 26 May 2017
• The four-run rally in the eighth set up the walk-off heroics from Moustakas in the ninth.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
• The homer run was Sandle’s team-high eighth of the year, and gave him 39 RBIs, also best on the club.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2021
• The Aggies scored three more runs in the eighth for a 5-0 victory.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
• Stastny broke a 12-game scoreless drought with his eighth of the season in the first.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2017
• David Phelps breezed through a 1-2-3 eighth, and Kyle Barraclough did the same in the ninth.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
• Only Michael Tonkin, called on with an 8-3 deficit in the eighth, left unscathed.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• After six hours, Lee had whittled the branch down about three eighths of an inch.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 5 Nov. 2010
• The utilityman then moved from right field to the mound and pitched a perfect eighth.
  — Jeff Wallner, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Matt Moore pitched a hitless eighth and Reynaldo López earned the save.
  — Annika Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• But after about one minute, the pair took the lead, clinching first place during the race’s final eighth of a mile.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• A third Naperville Central error, coming with two outs in the top of the eighth, allowed the Falcons to take the lead for good.
  — Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun, 13 May 2017
• The game was a CWS record-tying eighth decided by one run.
  — Eric Olson, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• Overall, Lyons finished tied for eighth in the team standings with 22 points.
  — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• Sixteen acres of food grow on a floor measuring an eighth of an acre.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 14 May 2017
• Yes, that’s up to one-eighth of the normal allotment of words spoken per day.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 7 Mar. 2018
• About 1,000 teachers or roughly one-eighth of the work force called out with personal days to take part in the protest.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 1 May 2017
• In the eighth, Smyly gave up a leadoff ball in play to David Peralta on a soft ground ball down the third-base line.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2023
• A hemline an eighth of an inch shorter than finger-tip length?
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 26 Apr. 2017
• Cordoba tripled in the eighth, sealing the second three-hit game of his young career.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• First off, each bottle of buds was labeled as an eighth or a quarter or a half, which refers to the fractions of an ounce that the buds inside weighed.
  — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2014
• Cain continued the eighth with a single and scored from first when Eric Hosmer belted a double off the wall in left.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
• The damage had already been done by the Twins with a four-run eighth against Ronel Blanco highlighted by Buxton’s first homer of the season.
  — Dave Campbell, Chron, 8 Apr. 2023
• The citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri, is a a sap-sucking plant pest barely an eighth of an inch long.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2011
• California has 53 members of Congress, one-eighth of the House.
  — William Schneider, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2005
• Those teeth help a wild groundhog dig an elaborate burrow under as much as one-eighth of an acre.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• He’s pitched two scoreless innings with the Rangers — including a perfect eighth in Monday’s loss — since joining the club.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024