How To Use one-eighth In A Sentence
- About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
- This definition is perhaps restricted somewhat by another provision, by which "all Negroes, mestizoes, and their descendants, having one-eighth of Negro or mulatto blood in their veins, shall be known in this State as persons of color. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
- Approximately one-eighth [52] of Gerhardt's hymns begin with "Ich," while not one of Luther's begins this way. Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody
- Like five-pin bowling, lawn bowlers have to wear spiffy flat-soled shoes so they don't trample the one-eighth inch grass too badly.
- The Pearl River watershed includes an area containing one-eighth of mainland China's population.
- I say "veracious" advisedly, as oftentimes, after having seen something extra strong in the Ananias-Sapphira-Munchausen-Gulliver-de-Rougemont epistolary line from some gentleman in khaki to the old folks at home, in a London or provincial paper, I feel that I must give up letter writing altogether, as by now those at home must have discovered that such effusions are often seven-eighths lies, and the remaining one-eighth truth, simply because the scribe's powers of invention have failed him, owing to the great strain. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
- One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
- Originally conceived as a bald villain bent on taking over the world, Superman was reworked by creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster into an indomitable, supremely powerful super hero who had the power to bend steel in his bare hands, leap one-eighth of a mile, and with skin impenetrable by anything less than an exploding shell. 03 « March « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
- A single piece of plate glass, about one-eighth inch thick, coated with aurentia collodion, is all that is required with an erythrosine plate. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
- Ms. SANDWEISS: One-eighth, one great-grandparent of African descent. American Lives: The 'Strange' Tale Of Clarence King
