How to Use percentage point in a Sentence

percentage point

noun

• Raise the tax rates by a millionth of a percentage point.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
• By the end of 2024, the market believes the Fed could have cut rates a full percentage point.
  — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
• This week the Bank of England raised rates by half a percentage point—its largest hike in 27 years.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
• That's down nearly a half of a percentage point from a year ago.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
• In 2016, Trump edged out Clinton here by less than a third of a percentage point.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The Fed raised rates by a quarter point in March, half a point in May, and three-quarters of a percentage point in June.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• The only question is whether the Fed will boost rates by a quarter of a percentage point or a half-point.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• In 2020, a vote shift of less than a percentage point in three close-run states would have changed the outcome in the electoral college.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• That was up by just under 1 percentage point last year from the year before.
  — Jon Marcus, al, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Fed has raised its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point this year, to a range between 0.75% and 1%.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 12 June 2022
• That Arkansas rate dropped 0.1 percentage point since May and is lower than any in the state over the past two decades.
  — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
• That share is up about 0.1 percentage point from the same period last year, the data show.
  — Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• The central bank is expected to raise the rate by a quarter of a percentage point, which would mark a slowdown in hikes.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2023
• Biden won the district by little more than one percentage point in 2020.
  — Hannah Knowles, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Democratic governor won the seat for his first term in 2019 by less than half a percentage point.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023
• Apple TV saw its share drop a fraction of a percentage point.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Cases have fallen only 5% in the past week and the test positive rate inched down a tenth of a percentage point.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2022
• Traders see a 44% chance for a first hike in March of half a percentage point, double the traditional move.
  — Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Throughout the year, Biden trailed Trump by anywhere from half a percentage point to almost four points.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
• The wide expectation is that the Fed will raise its key short-term rate by a quarter of a percentage point next week, which would be the first since 2018.
  — Stan Choe, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
• Trump won the battleground state by just over 1 percentage point.
  — Tom Foreman Jr., chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• The group’s shares were down about half a percentage point on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange following the results.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 9 Aug. 2024
• The Fed has already raised its key short-term interest rate once this year, by a quarter of a percentage point, in March.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 2 May 2022
• Powell said inflation is thought to rise about 0.2 percentage point for each $10 increase in the price of a barrel of oil.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022
• Sowerby expects that the Fed is likely to boost short term rates by a quarter of a percentage point at the next two-day meeting March 15-16.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2022
• As part of the plan, the FHA will slash the annual premium charged to mortgage borrowers by 0.3 of a percentage point.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
• If some forecasts are accurate, the Fed could raise short term rates by a quarter of a percentage point as many as four times or more in 2022.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
• Among people in their prime working years, those 25 to 54, the share of people employed rose by a whopping half a percentage point.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• The Fed has raised rates eight straight times in less than a year, most recently by a quarter of a percentage point, a slower pace than in nearly all of 2022.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• The benchmark 10-year note last yielded about 3.7%, down more than three-quarters of a percentage point since early July.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024