Sample Sentences for
commensurate
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    Pay should be commensurate with the time worked.
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    ...for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.  (source)
    commensurate = comparable in scope
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    ...a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty,  (source)
    commensurate = proportionate
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    One with a power level commensurate to that of your avatar.†  (source)
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    Though he had never talked business with her, she had known it to be a fraction of him that couldn't come out even, would carry forever beyond any decimal place she might name; her love, such as it had been, remaining incommensurate with his need to possess, to alter the land, to bring new skylines, personal antagonisms, growth rates into being.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommensurate means not and reverses the meaning of commensurate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    His strength decreased commensurately, but not enough to incapacitate him.†  (source)
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    That is why the salary is ...commensurate.†  (source)
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    The effort was so incommensurate with the result.†  (source)
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    Their daughter, Pearl, became commensurately more difficult to manage, her behavior marked by periods of sullen withdrawal and eruptions of anger.†  (source)
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    The work had to be unconnected to the operations of war, and POWs were to be given pay commensurate with their labor.†  (source)
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    On the other hand (what it must be allowed will much more frequently happen) if the Poet's words should be incommensurate with the passion, and inadequate to raise the Reader to a height of desirable excitement, then, (unless the Poet's choice of his metre has been grossly injudicious) in the feelings of pleasure which the Reader bas been accustomed to connect with metre in general, and in the feeling, whether chearful or melancholy, which he has been accustomed to connect with that particular movement of metre, there will be found something which will greatly contribute to impart passion to the words, and to effect the complex end which the Poet proposes to himself.†  (source)
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    Mostly I sat on the porch and worked on speeches for McHenry but I gleaned from the boys what it must be like to grow into this kind of world, how commensurate to one's expectation of what is due—the world that money makes and erect bearing and clear speech and college emblems on the beds and a sense of birthright and usable history.†  (source)
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    Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed.†  (source)
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