Sample Sentences for
commensurate
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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
  • One with a power level commensurate to that of your avatar.†  (source)
  • That is why the salary is ...commensurate.†  (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)
  • 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.
  • His strength decreased commensurately, but not enough to incapacitate him.†  (source)
  • "You are granted access only to those levels and settings commensurate with your skills," he said.†  (source)
  • The effort was so incommensurate with the result.†  (source)
  • Their daughter, Pearl, became commensurately more difficult to manage, her behavior marked by periods of sullen withdrawal and eruptions of anger.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Loss of concentration and visual focus; no appetite and a commensurate drop in weight — most significantly, spasms when there was a complete lack of motor controls.†  (source)
  • 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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