How to Use fifth in a Sentence

fifth

noun

• The bill is due on the fifth of each month.
• She donated a fifth of her income to charity.
• Oakland took the lead in the third and widened it in the fifth.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
• The Lancers added a run in the fourth and put up five in the fifth to break open the game.
  — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Wakeland added three more runs in the fifth for a 10-4 lead.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
• The goal was Pec’s fifth of the season, the assist Joveljic’s third.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
• Eloy Jiménez led off the third with a homer and Zavala homered again in the fifth.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
• Banks have the largest weight in the index and make up nearly a fifth of the 50 stocks.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• Gonzalez got the last out of the fourth but gave up three runs in the fifth.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• But around a fifth of traders think a rate cut could come in March 2024.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 June 2023
• The first three strikeouts came in the third inning, and Cole pitched to Cedric Mullins in the fifth.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
• Jung’s second home run capped the Rangers’ five-run fifth.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• Trailing 3-0, Spanish Fort erupted for five runs in the top of the fifth to take the lead.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2023
• Snell got through the rest of the 35-pitch fourth but was replaced by righthander Randy Rodriguez in the fifth.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
• Jonathan India hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth to put the Reds back ahead.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
• As much as a fifth of the population died along the way.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Tanner Smith led off the fourth with a homer and Shade added a solo shot in the fifth to make it 4-1.
  — oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
• One man could take up a fifth of the team’s budget in the not-too-distant future.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
• In Africa and South Asia a fifth of women with partners are abused each year.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• Scott cruised through the first four innings before giving up a run in the fifth.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
• These have choked off Iran's oil experts by four-fifths.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 11 July 2019
• Turkey imports about half its oil and a fifth of its gas needs from Iran.
  — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• The team made two errors in the second inning and another in the fifth.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
• Four were found in an upstairs area, Deputy Chief Jackson said, and a fifth was found in a bay.
  — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2019
• Ether shed over a fifth of its value before paring some of the slide to change hands at $2,342.
  — Suvashree Ghosh, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
• Three-fifths of each chamber must agree for the special session to be held.
  — Aric Chokey, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Though only a fifth of them lived, the ones that survived have flourished.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• That amounted to a little less than a fifth of their total.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2024
• Yes, the Yankees still had five more times at bat to make up for their disastrous fifth.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
• With its hotels and resorts business making up no more than about one fifth of annual group operating revenue over two decades, Date is positioning accommodation for a breakout.
  — James Simms, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024