AVERAGE in a Sentence

Learn AVERAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
83 example sentences for AVERAGE, such as:
1. She has an above average IQ.
2. The children average seven years of age.
3. There were eight whales, an average pod.
4. She lays a clutch of four eggs on average.
5. The average man don't like trouble and danger.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AVERAGE
average
 a.  relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
 a.  around the middle of a scale of evaluation
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The average size of Negro families has undoubtedly decreased since the war, primarily from economic stress.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  In a more prosperous year the situation is far better; but on the average the majority of tenants end the year even, or in debt, which means that they work for board and clothes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The average American can easily conceive of a rich land awaiting development and filled with black laborers.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  I have sought to paint an average picture of real relations between the sons of master and man in the South.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  The average audience, I have come to believe, wants facts rather than generalities or sermonizing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
7  The average crank has a long beard, poorly cared for, a lean, narrow face, and wears a black coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
8  Out of the twelve months in a year I suppose that, on an average, I spend six months away from Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
9  It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
11  The average man don't like trouble and danger.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
12  Which was sound enough judgment; but you take the average man, and he wouldn't wait for him to howl.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
13  There were eight whales, an average pod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
14  On an average, the tunneling cost a life a day and several manglings; it was seldom, however, that more than a dozen or two men heard of any one accident.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
15  That was a good haul, he said, better than average.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  She has an above average IQ.
2  The children average seven years of age.
3  The average food price has not decreased from the high level of a few months ago.
4  Their research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day.
5  Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner.
6  Our toys are designed to withstand the rough treatment of the average five-year-old.
7  We can calculate the price per unit along the following lines: However, this only yields an average selling price.
8  The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
9  Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
10  The surprising part was the level of sophistication with which the average citizen was mulling his market strategies.
11  The difference is scarcely perceptible to the average reader.
12  The average salary is correlated with length of education.
13  She lays a clutch of four eggs on average.
14  In recent years the average hospital stay for elderly patients has decreased.
15  The average human lifespan in the developed countries has increased over the last hundred years.