Sentences with average
av·er·age
A a - Take the average of those ratios and multiply by a hundred. [+ of]
- The average price of goods rose by just 2.2%.
- Prices have increased on average about eight percent.
- His work has been above the average.
- It takes an average of ten weeks for a house sale to be completed. [+ of]
- The average adult man burns 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day.
- Take all these temperatures and find their average.
- An average of 2,000 people attended the show each night.
- Most areas suffered more rain than usual, with Northern Ireland getting double the average for the month.
- I was only average academically.
- Average Australian family can no longer afford the average home mortgage, figures show.
- In 2004, the average was 186 centimetres, and the shortest player on each list was three centimetres taller than the average height of 1913.
- We averaged 42 miles per hour. [VERB noun]
- Above average in intelligence
- SYNONYMY NOTE: average refers to the result obtained by dividing a sum by the number of quantities added [the average of 7, 9, 17 is 33 ÷ 3, or 11] and in extended use is applied to the usual or ordinary kind, instance, etc.; mean1 commonly designates a figure intermediate between two extremes [the mean temperature for a day with a high of 56° and a low of 34° is 45°] and figuratively implies moderation [the golden mean]; the median is the middle number or point in a series arranged in order of size [the median grade in the group 50, 55, 85, 88, 92 is 85; the average is 74]; norm implies a standard of average performance for a given group [a child below the norm for his age in reading comprehension]
- The average of 3, 4, and 8 is 5
- His average over the journey was 30 miles per hour
- His performance was only average
- The average age
- The average contents of a matchbox
- To average eight hours' work a day
- They averaged the profits among the staff
- The children averaged 15 years of age
- An average of C in French
- An intelligence above the average
- The average speed is high
- An average student
- The children average six years of age
- To average six hours of sleep a night
- They averaged the loss among themselves
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1. 25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- Batting average
- If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
- The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
- To average a loss
- The average age of the participants was 18. 5.
- I soon found I was only an average chess player.
- Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- The average rainfall there is 180 inches.
- The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average.
- We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores.
- Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
- He averages seven hours of sleep a night.
- To average as expected.
- She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average.