How to Use fifth in a Sentence

fifth

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  • The bill is due on the fifth of each month.
  • She donated a fifth of her income to charity.
  • Wakeland added three more runs in the fifth for a 10-4 lead.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
  • Eloy Jiménez led off the third with a homer and Zavala homered again in the fifth.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • Gonzalez got the last out of the fourth but gave up three runs in the fifth.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • But around a fifth of traders think a rate cut could come in March 2024.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • Jung’s second home run capped the Rangers’ five-run fifth.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Trailing 3-0, Spanish Fort erupted for five runs in the top of the fifth to take the lead.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 12 May 2023
  • Jonathan India hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth to put the Reds back ahead.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • Tanner Smith led off the fourth with a homer and Shade added a solo shot in the fifth to make it 4-1.
    — oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The team made two errors in the second inning and another in the fifth.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Though only a fifth of them lived, the ones that survived have flourished.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Right now, Russia still holds around a fifth of this country.
    — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Less than a fifth of middle income earners (18%) said the same.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Lewis connected for a two-run blast — his Sun Belt-leading 20th of the season — in the fifth to make it 5-0.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Jake Fults hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth to give Jesuit a five-run lead and force a Hebron pitching change.
    — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 13 May 2023
  • And despite all of this, only one fifth of Hamas' fighters have been killed.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Advertisement DeLuca’s web gems kept the score tied 4-4 in the fifth.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • Americans were next with a little more than one-fifth of the market.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Reliance is in line to supply up to a fifth of the nation’s green energy.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Davis turned in two glitzy plays at third, first, racing into short left to make an over-the-head catch on a soft flare by Maton in the fifth.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Enagbare had three sacks, five tackles for loss and tied for fifth on the team with eight quarterback hits.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That would be better because the leftover amount after 100 years is closer to one fifth of a day.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Colangelo said some put about a fifth of vodka in their drinks, which is the equivalent of about 16 shots.
    — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The fuel problem has eased somewhat over the last few days, but around a fifth of gas stations in and around London are still dry.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Nearly three-fifths of Tianjin’s debt falls due this year, and investors have been leery of extending long-term loans to the city.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • While she was gone, police noticed a fifth of Patron tequila (750-ml bottle) in the back seat of their car.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Eagles scored in every inning but the third in the second game, racing out to a 4-0 first-inning lead and then adding two in the second, three in the fourth and five in the fifth.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Millions of people have started taking drugs that can help some users shed a fifth of their body weight or more.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Payments have always been a scale play, but the largest market in Southeast Asia is less than one-fifth the size of China.
    — Fortune, 8 Oct. 2021

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