How to Use threshold in a Sentence
threshold
noun- He stepped across the threshold.
- If your income rises above a certain threshold, your tax rate also rises.
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And one, two, three: the girls each step across the threshold.
— Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023 -
On the 23rd, the Sun enters Libra and brings us across the threshold of the equinox.
— Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023 -
Yet even on the threshold of growth, a question lingers.
— David Streitfeld, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2023 -
The next 10 days are forecast to stay above that threshold.
— Andrew Freedman, Axios, 7 Sep. 2024 -
The threshold for the second debate was higher than for the first.
— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023 -
More than a third of renter households meet that threshold.
— Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Last fall, the Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the 2020 state law that raised the threshold.
— Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024 -
And in 2003, the Angels crossed the three million threshold in attendance for the first time.
— Dan Freedman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 -
The threshold for getting people to leave their house — that bar is high.
— Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022 -
Once a driver is in the cockpit — a student might weigh around 100 pounds — teams place weights in the car to meet the threshold.
— Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024 -
Near the threshold of the kitchen, there's also a small breakfast nook to have coffee or eat.
— Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 12 Sep. 2023 -
One of the few people who has been allowed to cross that threshold is her fiancé.
— Jenny Singer, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023 -
In light of that, Perine should go over that threshold on Sunday.
— Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2022 -
Mersal added that the threshold needn’t be happy—or sad.
— Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022 -
And unless Congress changes the law before then, the $600 threshold is set to kick in the following year.
— Scott Horsley, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024 -
The spooky fit will have trick-or-treaters take paws before crossing your threshold.
— Irene Richardson, Country Living, 20 Oct. 2022 -
But while one bond had 54% of voter support, both elections failed to reach the two-thirds threshold.
— Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Jung, it could be argued, has the ability to cross all three thresholds.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023 -
That threshold is even higher, at least for me, where Trump is concerned.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022 -
The income threshold has long been a sticking point between the two parties.
— Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024 -
Only Nebraska and Penn State crossed the 60-point threshold in that nine-game stretch.
— Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2023 -
This threshold was met and passed well before the Arizona Supreme Court ruling.
— The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024 -
This is just below the 95% threshold recommended by the WHO.
— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024 -
The idea that that their amendments would get a lower threshold is the definition of it.
— Staff Reports, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022 -
And Iran is on the threshold of becoming a nuclear-armed state.
— David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024 -
That threshold is expected to be reached by the early 2030s, if not sooner.
— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023 -
Sales now appear to have crossed the $30 million threshold to trigger revenue distribution to Trump’s LLC.
— Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024 -
District 4 Councilmember David Cohen clinched a second term in the March primary after surpassing the 50% voter threshold.
— Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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