Example Sentences

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They have averaged 16% of the vote in the wards declared so far, much as we would anticipate from their standing in the polls.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The Lakers have averaged 20 turnovers a game in this series, including 24 in Game 4 in Houston, where the Lakers missed out on a chance to sweep the series.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

For the last 10 years, an average of about 1.85 million people are laid off each month; this year, monthly totals have averaged just under 1.7 million workers per month.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

In the first two decades since Y2K, by contrast, deaths have averaged around three per term.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

We have averaged about ten and a half miles a day; eleven and a half omitting the two days spent waiting out the blizzard.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin