RATE in a Sentence

Learn RATE 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.
377 example sentences for RATE, such as:
1. At any rate, you look very guilty.
2. They fervently hoped so, at any rate.
3. At any rate, your plan needs revision.
4. At any rate, beggars can't be choosers.
5. Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RATE
rate
 n.  a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
 n.  a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  Zeena, at any rate, did not apply the principle in her own case.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  They fervently hoped so, at any rate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  "Well, at any rate I've never been thrown," cried Scarlett indignantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty she stifled a giggle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  They couldn't be more than fifteen miles from home, but at the rate this old nag traveled it would take all day, for she would have to stop frequently to rest him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  At any rate, beggars can't be choosers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  At any rate, he made enough money to leave my father quite wealthy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  At any rate, you look very guilty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  But I doubt the ability of any of them to keep money more than five years at the rate they're spending.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  At any rate he sat at his desk all day, giving every appearance of industry, for he wished to be on equal terms with his respectable fellow townsmen who worked and worked hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  At any rate, she had so many uses for it that its very insufficiency had caused her to play high in the hope of doubling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  He gave, at any rate, no sign of resenting it and seemed prepared to supply in his own manner all the ease that was lacking in hers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
14  At any rate, I know she's safe on the yacht, though I haven't yet seen her; but you see it was not my fault, Lily summed up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
15  At any rate, viewed less ideally, all the disadvantages of such a situation were for the woman; and it was to Bertha that Lily's sympathies now went out.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The assumptions made about the economy's rate of growth proved to be incorrect.
2  Nurses refused to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation.
3  I'm afraid our needs do not rate very high with this administration.
4  My pay has not increased from the rate fixed two years ago.
5  Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.
6  More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.
7  Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
8  At any rate, your plan needs revision.
9  There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.
10  Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax.
11  The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
12  Blood feuds and general gangsterism added to the local crime rate.
13  Your metabolic rate is the speed at which your body transforms food into energy.
14  The Central Bank intervened in the currency markets today to try to stabilize the exchange rate.
15  By the turn of the century, Pittsburgh had the highest death rate in the United States.