How to Use decimal point in a Sentence

decimal point

noun
  • That value can’t be measured in decimal points alone.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • My challenge to all mocksters out there is to use solid numbers next year and avoid the decimal points.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Turns out, a decimal point on the bill was accidentally moved.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2017
  • The 4-star running back reached the final 4 before missing out on a spot in the game by mere decimal points.
    — David Wilson Diehards, ajc, 23 Nov. 2017
  • In the wake of his firing are students whose chances of going pro in baseball are less than a decimal point of a fraction of a fraction.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This was a home run whose magic can’t be summed up by decimal points or its 455-foot distance projection.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That $399 — no decimal point — is part of a bid by the brand to cultivate a hipper image and attract younger drinkers.
    — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • An hour after the game, the Cavaliers’ trainer was still plucking decimal points out of James’ skin.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • But those models cannot predict economic indicators and outcomes to the nth decimal point.
    — Wesley Davenport, National Review, 13 Aug. 2024
  • That could mean probing the Universe to greater precision, where every decimal point in your measurement counts.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Mat Ishbia made a fortune in the mortgage business, where risks are calculated down to the final decimal point.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But [DSPs] could lose another zero and move that digit closer to the decimal point.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • This is equivalent to the number 1 written behind a decimal point and 20 zeroes.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The average of these ratings determines the final score based on four decimal points, with two decimal points being published.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The internal document projected the yield on raw material to the decimal point and earnings to the dollar.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Adding zeros at the end of a number increases its magnitude, with the help of a decimal point, adding zeros at the beginning decreases its magnitude.
    — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The league’s tech team provides Wilson with spreadsheets and drawings that must be followed to the decimal point to deliver ‘one-design’ parity across the fleet.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • In a field in which lives turned on tiny differences in engineering and chance three or four places to the right of the decimal point, a questionable heart was not a remotely tolerable risk.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 July 2019
  • This number shows the last three digits of a station’s air-pressure reading to the nearest tenth of a millibar (mb); the last number actually comes after the decimal point.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Snell and Sale rank first and second, respectively, on the all-time strikeouts per nine innings leaderboard (and they’re separated by decimal points).
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Columbia County’s 911 agency has learned the hard way that an errant decimal point can make an enormous difference.
    — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
  • Placing infinitely many digits to the right of the decimal point corresponds to infinite precision.
    — Ittay Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • On sale for $10, this nifty gadget has an LCD display that accurately shows you how much your luggage weighs, down to the first decimal point.
    — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers have found that the number 4 is underrepresented as the first digit after the decimal point in some companies’ unrounded earnings-per-share data.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • If that happens, there will be laughter from Minneapolis to Miami, and more importantly, the checks from television partners will have fewer digits to the left of the decimal point.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Baghdad is where algebra, the decimal point, and the first method to calculate the radius of the Earth were invented in ancient times—and Iraq, Blasim feels, is a rightful heir to the sci-fi tradition.
    — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Greg’s confidence is boosted only slightly in the presence of Connor, who’s polling at 1 percent in his presidential bid and practically shriveling at the idea of dropping to decimal points.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
  • With measurements, performance, and pricing that are within a decimal point or two of the competition, the GV70 stands out with a dazzling sense of style and a fastidious attention to the details that define luxury.
    — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The Logic of Time The modern acceptance that there exists a continuum of real numbers, most with infinitely many digits after the decimal point, carries little trace of the vitriolic debate over the question in the first decades of the 20th century.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020

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