How to Use metric in a Sentence

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  • The other tab within the weight trends panel shows the rest of your metrics from the QardioBase X.
    — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The Ravens’ offensive line is one of the best in the league by several metrics, if not the eye test.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Why do this year’s metrics kill housing that wouldn’t be built for years?
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Your journey is personal, of course, so comb the Bankrate study for the lifestyle metrics that mean the most to you.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Cannabis, however, is not one of the metrics that My E Listing used to rank each state.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In the latest tracking week (April 21-27), the song improved in two of the three metrics: sales and radio airplay.
    — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • The Giant Huntsman has a 12-inch leg span — the biggest on this list by that metric alone — and a body length of about 2 inches.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The price of Brent crude oil, a key industry metric, has fallen nearly 9% over the past month.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • States and colleges will also use the metric to award scholarships and grants.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Aaron Rodgers was, by many metrics, the best NFL quarterback who’d ever lived.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Of course, founders’ ability to raise funds this fall depends a lot on the stage of their company, their metrics, and, of course, the sector.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • To see its crowning jewel dulling in some metrics has led investors to question how gains will be made in the future.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The limits are tied to metrics such as state personal income.
    — Chris Edwards, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The advanced metrics that loved Butler last season don’t love him as much this season.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Exit values, a standard metric of success for a startup, have been down across the board.
    — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 3 May 2023
  • The different grip variations and spin metrics make the sweeper unique.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The audit found that the city isn’t regularly checking that metric.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • To find the most and least safe places in the United States, a new study by WalletHub scored 182 cities (including at least two of the largest in each state) across three categories of metrics.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The metrics by which these figures are determined may vary from state to state, however.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The economy, by most metrics Europe's weakest before the war, has been left in tatters.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But these eye-catching metrics don’t tell a complete story.
    — Dan Murphy, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For example, its claims of a large Gen Z audience came without any metrics to back it up.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The Aztecs finished fifth in a conference rated the nation’s seventh best by the leading metrics, and the committee didn’t care.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • However, the responses for these two metrics varied based on race, the report said.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • Its predecessors, the Wyze Scale and the Scale S, measure all the same metrics with the exception of muscle mass percentage.
    — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Before these devices are ready for prime-time, there are several other metrics that need to catch up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But reform has no clear metric for success, and experts argue that a crisis decades in the making will take years, if not decades, to address.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The message should be that the location of allied troops—not just the percentage of spending on defense—is a vital metric.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2023
  • Even though the economy’s been performing well by many metrics, Biden’s learning the hard way that good data — no matter how strong — does little to change how people feel about the economy.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The labor market is roaring ahead, wages are rising and inflation is slowing — all key metrics that economists point to as showing a resilient and strong U.S. economy.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
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  • In one metric sortable by date, the Aztecs rank as the nation’s No. 10 team since Dec. 21.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The hub is expected to produce up to 100 metric tons a day.
    — Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • That means a power-to-weight ratio close to 500hp per (metric) ton.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • And the metric isn’t a perfect one for measuring the virus’ impact.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 15 July 2022
  • The display is also clear and easy to read, and the app goes into detail about what each metric means.
    — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
  • This metric highlights how quickly VR prices have come down in just a few years.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
  • The track also tops the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week.
    — Gary Trust, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The metric measures the value of a company’s shares against the value of its assets.
    — Michael Msika, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2023
  • Race tires, the kind that use metric sizing and aren't road legal, wrap 18-inch center-lock wheels.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • By that metric, 4 million acre-feet in cuts would cost $6 billion.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
  • If so, the objective or the target metric needs to be exactly that.
    — Vivek Rajagopal, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, that’s probably not the only metric Harbaugh may be cribbing from The Good Book.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2022
  • As a final point, revenue from the iPhone is the only metric that truly matters.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 29 Sep. 2022
  • By just about any metric, new or old, when healthy, he is considered the best pitcher in baseball.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Jiménez was the slowest worker on the A’s staff in 2022, according to Statcast’s pitch tempo metric.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
  • While the switch in venue should boost that metric slightly, the fact remains this is the best defense Tottenham will have faced at home all season.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • To be able to just say it for the pure creativity of saying it, and really for the only metric to be honest.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 July 2022
  • All those additional planes in the sky come with carbon emissions—roughly 800 metric tonnes of it, as of last year.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The metric does not include errors, times reached on a fielder’s choice, dropped third strikes or sacrifice bunts.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022
  • That’s the number of metric tons of electronic junk the world threw away in 2019, according to the most recent data from the United Nations.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The new running power metric on the Apple Watch is similar.
    — PCMAG, 12 July 2022
  • So which metric matters the most: If a certain number of people watch, or the right kind of people (dormant subscribers) watch?
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The metric ranks the Aztecs No. 29 overall after finishing last season 14th.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In the hearing, Twitter’s lawyers said the lawsuit doesn’t turn on the amount of spam and fake accounts because the merger agreement didn’t make any promises about that metric.
    — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 19 July 2022
  • Tape measures with standard scales rather than metric scales are easiest to read.
    — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
  • So if the purpose is not necessarily in the specific science of what’s causing the disgust, what’s the goal of a metric like this?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Many workers say output is the only metric that matters.
    — Gretchen Tarrant, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
  • If the only metric is how much the Global North agrees to pay amid high inflation, slow growth, and an energy crisis, then yes.
    — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • As a result, when a solar PV cell’s efficiency is rated, a single metric suffices.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In much the same way, setting performance metric benchmarks is a cornerstone of successful AI integrations.
    — Daniel Knauf, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

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