12 example sentences using quarter.
Quarter used in a sentence
Quarter in a sentence as a noun
Most of them are happy to get a quarter of what images used to sell for.
In the third quarter of 2012, PC sales were down 8 percent on a year-over-year basis worldwide.
It's no surprise that iPhone's sales share plummeted the last quarter before the 5S release.
"Boy oh boy, if I had a quarter every time I heard that probably I could get a tall Starbucks latte.
The point of diminishing returns for that are probably a quarter of the size Dewey ended up after the merger.
So you tell your project manager, "yeah, um, whatever number we're using this quarter for estimating 'story' sizes or whatever, just use the biggest one and double it.
Quarter in a sentence as a verb
Note that they are still selling each car at a material loss; and only managed to show a profitable quarter by trading green credits they gained from their manufacturing.
Yes, financial institutions do typically have "questions" they need "answered" before making quarter million dollar loans to anonymous e-mail addresses.
From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price thats hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves.
A Kickstarter campaign is emphatically not a crowd-sourced angel investment: it's a busker's hat, with basically the same responsibilities and obligations that a street musician has to her audience of sidewalk quarter-droppers.
""For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.
In 17th century England, as modern western society was taking shape, you had, on the one side, royalists who despised political freedom, who valued rule by a church hierarchy, and yet who were much given to licentious habits in their lifestyles while, on the other, you had those who agitated for political freedom, who fought oppressive forms of centralized rule, who ultimately broke away to form what became America, and yet who in their personal lives bore the grim face of the puritan that sought at every turn to chain, quarter, and shame everyone all about who thought it might be fun to dance or to have a little fun in life.
Quarter definitions
one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
See also: one-fourth fourth one-quarter quartern
a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"
(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"
a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"
one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"
a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"
one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter"
a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
See also: draw
divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
divide by four; divide into quarters