How to Use three-quarters in a Sentence

three-quarters

noun
  • All singing and moving in three-quarters time at the halting dawn of the 20th century.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Add three-quarters of the celery mixture to the potatoes and marinating liquid, dump in the mayo dressing, and gently stir to combine.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
  • The picture was nearly three-quarters finished when the artist died in 1669, leaving passages that expose his working process.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The company also reported a 20% bump in its supply chain emissions, which account for three-quarters of its total carbon footprint.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, over three-quarters of economists polled by Reuters expect the Fed to hold interest rates steady for the rest of 2026.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Boise Auditorium District scoops up land The district now owns about three-quarters of the two-block grid along River Street.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2026
  • The gift from Kelly and Shear consists of fifty-one works by Winters that represent almost three-quarters of all prints made by the artist in the 1980s.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 29 June 2026
  • Amending the Constitution would take a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress ratification by three-quarters of the states.
    — Emily Chang, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Almost three-quarters of all respondents in the AIPI survey thought AI will become a more important political issue in the future.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 29 June 2026
  • More than three-quarters of Americans (72 percent) plan to take at least one trip this summer, according to Redion's 2026 Holiday Barometer survey.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis shows the executive spent roughly three-quarters of that — more than $83 million — on television and cable advertising.
    — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 2 July 2026
  • In fact, Sentry’s data shows that more than three-quarters of large business executives view recent increases in litigation and multimillion-dollar verdicts as a problem in their industry, with 77% citing third-party funding as a growing issue.
    — Sentry Insurance, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In 1910, according to the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, three-quarters of the residents of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and New York City were immigrants or children of immigrants.
    — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026

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