How to Use rating in a Sentence

rating

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  • The school has an above-average academic rating.
  • The article compares the fuel-economy ratings of various cars.
  • Two received a five-star rating, the highest on the scale.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The highest rating, EF 5, has wind gusts of more than 200 miles per hour.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
  • Shoppers seem to love this pair of boots with over 1,400 five-star ratings.
    — Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Broward County Public Schools has earned an A rating for the first time in over a decade.
    — Alecia Taylor, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
  • This 35-petal rose has a garden rating of 8.5 and has a strong fruit and clove fragrance.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The clay masks with the highest average ratings made it to this list.
    — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • So, how did Davis and the Lakers, who own the league's best defensive rating in the playoffs, do it?
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
  • The odds of them overcoming such a deficit against a team with the fourth-best defensive rating in the NBA (111.1) were bleak.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The show struggled to get ratings traction in those bumpy early years.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • An answer appeared to come in the days that followed: The network had its worst ratings week in eight years.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Love was put back in the game and threw an incomplete pass, which caused his passer rating to fall to 157.2.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • That’s got to sting for Trump, who cares deeply about television ratings.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Even flight attendants have put it to the test, and it’s racked up over 3,500 five-star ratings on Amazon.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The top speed is governed at 130 mph and limited by the H rating of the Goodyear radials.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
    — Nancy Black, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • More than 6,600 customers have given this Nicole Miller area rug a five-star rating.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The 2017 game Gloomhaven, which held the highest rating on the site for years, utilizes nineteen mechanics.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The degree of damage is what prompted the EF-3 rating, the weather service said.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The shoes aren’t just trusted by the A-lister: Hundreds of shoppers have given them a five-star rating, too.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a sterling 113.5 NFL passer rating in those games.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • More than 1,200 customers have left a glowing review to go along with their five-star rating.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • These leggings have even earned an impressive 4.3-star rating on the site.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Choosing all- or four-wheel drive lowers all those max tow ratings by 200 pounds.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • None of the tornadoes that hit northern Illinois this week were above an E1 rating.
    — By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 15 July 2023
  • Today, Wheatley has a C rating, the same as Furr’s, but the wheels were already in motion, and now the takeover is imminent.
    — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Moore praised the show’s ratings over the past two years and emphasized its strong performance on Friday nights.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2023
  • With more than 8,900 five-star ratings at Amazon, shoppers have reached the same conclusion as me: this glide-on stick is a must-have.
    — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • As every film requires a rating classification to be screened in Singapore, this means that the film is banned from all public screenings.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024

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