Example Sentences

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They had averaged 10 runs per game through their first five contests of the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Neuheisel could be widely coveted as an offensive coordinator after getting a group of players who had averaged 14 points to triple that number against one of the Big Ten’s better defenses.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

Most notable was the fact that they managed 29 touches in Everton's box whereas they had averaged just 19 across their other league games so far.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

In January, automaker discounts on new vehicles, including rebates and low-interest financing, averaged $1,469 per vehicle — five times what they had averaged a year earlier.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Chief Running Fisher had measured threescore years of life, and for forty years of that time he had averaged a battle for every other year.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth