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How to use per in a sentence

40 example sentences · preposition, pronoun, determiner

Per means for each. Example: “Admission is £10 per person.”

Examples of per by meaning

prepositionFor each.

  • Admission is £10 per person.
  • miles per gallon
  • beats per minute

prepositionTo each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

  • 12 inches per foot
  • 100 centimeters per meter

prepositionBy the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).

  • Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
  • The medication is to be administered per os.

prepositionIn accordance with, as per.

  • I parked my car at the curb per your request.
  • Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below.
  • Note that while the walkthrough illustrates that words may be separated by more than one space, you may assume, per the specifications above, that no sentences will contain more than one space in a row.

prepositionAccording to.

  • Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources
  • The Heat were too close to the luxury tax line -- $1.6 million over before this trade, per ESPN's Bobby Marks

pronounThey (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he...

  • The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)

pronounThem (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and...

  • I did not know it, but I loved per.1998, Katherine Phelps, “Odysseus, She”, in Storytronics
  • Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.2006 November 15, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ77.9.E55 2006, page 160

More sentences with per

  • Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.From the entry birth
  • The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.From the entry acceleration
  • We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.From the entry at
  • He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.From the entry tear
  • Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.From the entry low
  • We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.From the entry rate
  • The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.From the entry pitch
  • Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.From the entry school
  • The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum.From the entry carry
  • The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.From the entry leaf
  • It's not a museum per se, but they do have some interesting artefacts.From the entry per se
  • In this region the average spraint number per site is 3.9.From the entry spraint
  • The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.From the entry hurtle
  • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.From the entry discount
  • Ideally, we would have one textbook per student, but unfortunately some of you will have to share.From the entry ideally
  • Iron has a density of 7.8 grams per cubic centimeter: its dimensionless relative density is 7.8.From the entry dimensionless
  • The position advertised a $40 per hour rate, inclusive of the casual loading.From the entry loading
  • She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!From the entry hotshot
  • All workaholics should move to Hong Kong, where working hours average over 50 per week.From the entry workaholic
  • The graphics are really choppy; I'm only getting 12 frames per second.From the entry frame per second
  • I'm working half-time this month (two and a half days per week) before my maternity leave.From the entry half-time
  • If humans are mortal, and Socrates is a human, then per alia Socrates is mortal.From the entry per alia
  • The SI unit of velocity is metres per second, derived from the base units metre and second.From the entry base unit
  • As per Captain Smith, no midshipman shall sit or linger in this area.From the entry as per
  • The researchers measured the number of surfacings per minute by each dolphin.From the entry surfacing

Meaning of per

  1. preposition For each.
  2. preposition To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).
  3. preposition By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).

Full definition of per

Questions about per in a sentence

How do you use per in a sentence?
Per is used as a preposition, pronoun and determiner. For example: “Admission is £10 per person.”
What is a short sentence with per?
“beats per minute”
What does per mean?
Per means for each.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: per (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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