How to Use fifth in a Sentence
fifth
noun- The bill is due on the fifth of each month.
- She donated a fifth of her income to charity.
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Oakland took the lead in the third and widened it in the fifth.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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The Lancers added a run in the fourth and put up five in the fifth to break open the game.
—Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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The Vikings fall to fifth and will open the postseason on the road.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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Wakeland added three more runs in the fifth for a 10-4 lead.
—Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
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The goal was Pec’s fifth of the season, the assist Joveljic’s third.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
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Eloy Jiménez led off the third with a homer and Zavala homered again in the fifth.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
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Banks have the largest weight in the index and make up nearly a fifth of the 50 stocks.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
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Gonzalez got the last out of the fourth but gave up three runs in the fifth.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
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But around a fifth of traders think a rate cut could come in March 2024.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 June 2023
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The cast is now three-fifths white, instead of four-fifths.
—Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
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The first three strikeouts came in the third inning, and Cole pitched to Cedric Mullins in the fifth.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
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Jung’s second home run capped the Rangers’ five-run fifth.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
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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
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Snell got through the rest of the 35-pitch fourth but was replaced by righthander Randy Rodriguez in the fifth.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
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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
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As much as a fifth of the population died along the way.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Such a change in the law would require a three-fifths vote in both the lower house and the Senate.
—Raymond Colitt, Bloomberg.com, 29 May 2017
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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
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Two-fifths of the offensive line, at least, will be new.
—Peter King, SI.com, 9 May 2018
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All but eight of the accused are under 25 years old, and four-fifths of them are male.
—Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
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Now, three-fifths of UT’s starting lineup is from the West Coast.
—Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
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One man could take up a fifth of the team’s budget in the not-too-distant future.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
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Iglesias hit a double to left in the fifth and finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs. ...
—George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2018
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In Africa and South Asia a fifth of women with partners are abused each year.
—The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
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Scott cruised through the first four innings before giving up a run in the fifth.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
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These have choked off Iran's oil experts by four-fifths.
—Sam Kiley, CNN, 11 July 2019
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The city now requires a fifth of the property be set aside as parkland.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2025
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Over a fifth of those cars came from Mexico, the top source of auto imports last year.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
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