a portion

Example Sentences

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Although it's only selling a portion of the company to the likes of us, the price of the shares Elon Musk is selling means we can calculate the price tag of the whole company.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Chief among those is Meta AI, its chatbot which is now attempting to monetize a portion of the 3.5 billion daily users across the whole of Meta’s platform base.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

In video clips of a portion of the incident, some of the audience is heard cheering and clapping while others sit stone-faced in their seats, and many are seen getting up and leaving.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

But the absence of warmth in the performance robs the denouement of a portion of its awful pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

It was just a portion of a shoulder and the back of Diego’s head as if he were walking out of the painting.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson