Sample sentences for COROLLARY

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something that follows from something else — such as a logical or practical consequence

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented European interventions in the Caribbean.

He loved her and by corollary the children she loved.
A corollary of the highest importance may be deduced from the foregoing remarks,
Charles Darwin -- The Origin of Species
if people are to quarrel often, it follows as a corollary that their quarrels cannot be protracted beyond certain limits.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The corollary to all these trends is a fashion for political correctness, a certain bending-over-backward not to offend.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Within three minutes, there were 201 photos posted, most of them close corollaries to the face of Fiona Highbridge.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
The corollary of the causeless in matter is the unearned in spirit.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
I had the strong impression that he had long been asking himself that question and all its corollaries.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
— Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
As an old teacher I can hardly refrain from classroom habits; the corollary should be left as an exercise for the student.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
As a corollary to this belief, he supposed that if he gave in to the Queen he would lose his tenfold might.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Her thoughts went to birth's corollary: death.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
For us, such struggles—for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food—were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The partition of Poland is a theorem of which all present political outrages are the corollaries.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
This leads us to a corollary of astronomical importance: to the unconditional acceptance of the premise that 'absence' is superior to 'presence.'
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
I know the three laws and the fourteen corollaries.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
And he believed the obvious corollary: The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
The high rate of turnover had the corollary benefit of keeping to a minimum the number of individuals who understood the building's secrets.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Whenever I read a new work, I spin the mental Rolodex looking for correspondences and corollaries—where have I seen his face, don't I know that theme?
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
For this was what he'd vowed as a corollary of his main aim — to study until he could see the pylons of the Golden Gate Bridge....
Gish Jen -- Typical American

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