How to Use eighth in a Sentence

eighth

noun
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  • An eighth of a pound is two ounces.
  • In the eighth, the Rangers had the bases loaded with less than two out for the third time.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 30 June 2017
  • Hillary’s people were on the 17th floor and the Trump planners were on the eighth.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2016
  • On Friday, Donovan hit a pair of two-run homers, one in the first and one in the eighth.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 26 May 2017
  • The four-run rally in the eighth set up the walk-off heroics from Moustakas in the ninth.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
  • The homer run was Sandle’s team-high eighth of the year, and gave him 39 RBIs, also best on the club.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 16 May 2021
  • The Aggies scored three more runs in the eighth for a 5-0 victory.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
  • Stastny broke a 12-game scoreless drought with his eighth of the season in the first.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2017
  • David Phelps breezed through a 1-2-3 eighth, and Kyle Barraclough did the same in the ninth.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
  • Only Michael Tonkin, called on with an 8-3 deficit in the eighth, left unscathed.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
  • After six hours, Lee had whittled the branch down about three eighths of an inch.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 5 Nov. 2010
  • The utilityman then moved from right field to the mound and pitched a perfect eighth.
    — Jeff Wallner, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Matt Moore pitched a hitless eighth and Reynaldo López earned the save.
    — Annika Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But after about one minute, the pair took the lead, clinching first place during the race’s final eighth of a mile.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • A third Naperville Central error, coming with two outs in the top of the eighth, allowed the Falcons to take the lead for good.
    — Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun, 13 May 2017
  • The game was a CWS record-tying eighth decided by one run.
    — Eric Olson, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
  • Overall, Lyons finished tied for eighth in the team standings with 22 points.
    — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • Sixteen acres of food grow on a floor measuring an eighth of an acre.
    — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 14 May 2017
  • Yes, that’s up to one-eighth of the normal allotment of words spoken per day.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 7 Mar. 2018
  • About 1,000 teachers or roughly one-eighth of the work force called out with personal days to take part in the protest.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 1 May 2017
  • In the eighth, Smyly gave up a leadoff ball in play to David Peralta on a soft ground ball down the third-base line.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2023
  • A hemline an eighth of an inch shorter than finger-tip length?
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Cordoba tripled in the eighth, sealing the second three-hit game of his young career.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • First off, each bottle of buds was labeled as an eighth or a quarter or a half, which refers to the fractions of an ounce that the buds inside weighed.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2014
  • Cain continued the eighth with a single and scored from first when Eric Hosmer belted a double off the wall in left.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • The damage had already been done by the Twins with a four-run eighth against Ronel Blanco highlighted by Buxton’s first homer of the season.
    — Dave Campbell, Chron, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri, is a a sap-sucking plant pest barely an eighth of an inch long.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2011
  • California has 53 members of Congress, one-eighth of the House.
    — William Schneider, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2005
  • Those teeth help a wild groundhog dig an elaborate burrow under as much as one-eighth of an acre.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • He’s pitched two scoreless innings with the Rangers — including a perfect eighth in Monday’s loss — since joining the club.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 July 2023

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