How do you use the word "percent" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "percent" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "percent": More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines. Six percent home loans represent the industry average now.

Percent Meaning

/pəˈsɛnt/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

advFor every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

nounA percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).

Sentence Examples

More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.

Six percent home loans represent the industry average now.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

percentage

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Twenty ____ of the total sales revenue this quarter came from online orders.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The bank raised its interest rate by half a ____ in response to rising inflation figures.

Word Origin & History

From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district." — 2002 May 8, Leon Jaroff, Time:

"In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide." — 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298:

"Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry." — 2016 July 7, Arthur Neslen, “Global fish production approaching sustainable limit, UN warns”, in The Guardian:

"A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack." — 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:

"And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay." — 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 254:

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