How to Use statistic in a Sentence

statistic

noun

• One statistic that stuck out is that 40 percent of those surveyed did not have college degrees.
• The Lone Star State leads the nation in the statistic since 2017, and by a wide margin.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2023
• UConn, 50th in the statistic, will need to avoid three-and-outs and keep the ball moving down the field to have a chance.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Rockets are 12th in that statistic, 13 spots higher than the Suns.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• These short-term statistics, of course, are not the end of the story by any means.
  — David T. Nudelman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• The statistic is that most people do not make it to five years of teaching.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
• The block was the only statistic that the rookie guard posted in the contest against the Trail Blazers.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
• Users have noted a longer wait time and lack of statistics in this year's Wrapped.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
• Th the background check is, is a striking statistic, but so are the bar charts of deaths by, by gunshots?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• UConn’s offense was near the bottom of the FBS in nearly every statistic in 2021.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022
• That’s because the grim statistics of the police blotter fail to tell the full story.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• Some statistics from that year give ideas of where Hughes’ guns might have come from.
  — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 28 June 2024
• That's a fairly clear statistic that many of your listeners would be able to track.
  — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The statistic does not include anyone who watched the series from a laptop, tablet or cell phone.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
• Fewer births have come along with that statistic in South Korea.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The statistics—the refuge of the loser—show that England, over the match, was only slightly better.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• There’s no more startling statistic than rebounding — Colorado whipped the Beavers 46-26 on the glass.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• The most alarming statistic is the high unemployment rate for youth.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• And in a statistic that is very telling to this scout, the Dodgers collective Earned Run Average was a very snappy 2.80, the best in baseball.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The information dates to the 2020 tax year, as the IRS hasn't released more recent statistics.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
• But for the seasons where the tackle-for-loss statistic has been in use, one of the best at recording them has Alabama football roots.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2022
• If your giftee has been lamenting their screen time statistics, help them out with this handy phone lock box.
  — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 23 Nov. 2024
• Kendrick said he’s heard and read where some won’t acknowledge statistics from the Negro Leagues.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
• The statistic is based on the number of hospital beds taken by Covid patients.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 July 2022
• Of course, strength of schedule in the preseason can be a misleading statistic.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• For much of the automobile's existence, speed was the statistic that sold.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
• The starkest statistics were for men past their 75th birthdays, who were dying by suicide at more than twice the rate of men younger than 25.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
• Such stark statistics warrant stricter action on the part of the ultra-rich, Tubiana argues.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 4 June 2024
• As Horton Sheff sat and took notes, a statistic gnawed at her conscience — 74% of Hartford eighth-graders could not read on grade level.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• Quiñones argues that the seed stage is a critical place to improve these statistics.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024