hundred-to-one
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Each X signifies that the active substance has undergone a ten-to-one dilution, each C a hundred-to-one dilution.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clary, like defendants in other crack cases, challenged the constitutionality of the hundred-to-one ratio.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
If he cannot answer these questions satisfactorily he may know that he is undertaking a hundred-to-one chance of peace and happiness.
From Three Things by Glyn, Elinor
Everybody," I said, "entertains notions of cleaning up a bundle by having the hundred-to-one shot come in by a length.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau
But the chance, the hundred-to-one chance, of turning him into an ordinary human being—loving, suffering, understanding—was lost.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
