How to Use single-digit in a Sentence
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The Bucs and held the Jets to single-digit scoring in every quarter.
—Evan Dudley, al, 17 Feb. 2023
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In 26 games, he was held to single-digit scoring nine times.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
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Three-digits calls assign a single-digit apiece to the split end, tight end and flanker in that order.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
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So, the Suns pulled off two single-digit wins over Denver’s second-stringers.
—Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
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The Tikigaq boys opened the game with a 12-0 run and never let Dillingham reduce the deficit on the scoreboard to a single-digit margin.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
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The Greens and Wales’ Plaid Cymru are also fielding candidates and have won single-digit hauls of seats in the past.
—NBC News, 4 July 2024
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That would mark the first quarter of single-digit sales growth in its two decades as a public company.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 May 2024
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The Ravens laying any single-digit number is an auto-smash for me here.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
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The department said that the weather forecast for the area at the time was snow and single-digit temperatures.
—David Chiu, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
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It's taken me from 15-ish percent body fat to single-digit, while still being able to build lean muscle.
—Greg Presto, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
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The single-digit total compares to 401 lethal injections carried out across the U.S. over that same time frame, the data showed.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
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Would-be Twitter rivals Mastodon and Bluesky have yet to grow beyond single-digit millions of users.
—Geoffrey A. Fowler and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
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Biden’s Gen Z advantage over Trump shrank to a single-digit margin.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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The rest of the field seems destined for single-digit polling and an asterisk on Ballotpedia’s recap of the election year.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
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That compares with its previous guidance in April of a low single-digit increase in sales.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 26 July 2024
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Classic rock, xerox pop, and hair metal soundtracked our single-digit years in the early ‘90s.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
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Boston never even got a sniff of single-digit temperatures this year, with a winter low of 14 degrees, a record for lack of deep cold.
—Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
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That’s the most by any of the six programs from major college conferences who had single-digit win totals last season.
—Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
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In the first round of the playoffs, Holiday scored only three points against the Lakers, playing single-digit minutes in four of the five games as Malone went nine-deep into his bench.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024
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The union says its deal grants workers an immediate 15.5% raise, plus further single-digit raises during the course of the five-year agreement.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 1 July 2024
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But so far the most direct criticism has come from single-digit candidates Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 June 2023
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The stock trades at about 18x forward earnings, which is well ahead of rivals AT&T and Verizon, which both trade at high single-digit multiples.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
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The victory of a dark-horse candidate would require not just his or her emergence from the single-digit tier but also the collapse of both Trump and DeSantis.
—Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 3 May 2023
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Pence’s campaign for 2024 has been mired in single-digit polling numbers since announcing his bid in June, trailing far behind Trump and others.
—USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
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Sector weightings are par for the course, too, with financials at 75% and everything else at single-digit levels.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
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With a couple of hundred racers in the first year and single-digit thousands the following year, selling the idea of mass participation wasn’t easy.
—Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 21 June 2024
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Only three of the 68 teams have single-digit odds, with the defending champion, Connecticut, as the betting front-runner.
—Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
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Whereas New York bodega chopped cheeses generally cost single-digit prices, Bay Area versions will run you well over $10.
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
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The Aztecs, who are riding an eight-game winning streak, have three single-digit victories in the tournament and a 23-point second-round victory over Furman.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
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Organic performance in the Greater China region remained in line with the first quarter of 2024: single-digit negative.
—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 25 July 2024
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