Sample sentences for PROPORTIONATE

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Definition

an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else

Distant galaxies are receding at speeds proportionate to their distance.

proportionate representation of a minority group
Each nation then would have a vote in administration roughly proportionate to its contributions.
Their response were appropriate and proportionate.
Where these minds are low and gross, the area of that "appearance" is proportionately widened.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
He needs a bigger container, but not proportionately bigger.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
A proportionately low number of these members were from the rural areas, the regions where the ANC had historically been weakest.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
The seriousness of such an occasion is directly proportionate to the number of bodily emissions you are asked to cull for analysis.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
The deeds of the hero in the second part of his personal cycle will be proportionate to the depth of his descent during the first.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
But who is to define what is proportionate?
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
This was a more authoritative speech than she had ever heard on her niece's lips, and Mrs. Penniman was proportionately startled.
Henry James -- Washington Square
But, Joss Bont, I beg you to be proportionate.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
It was smaller, more proportionate.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
And his girth was proportionate.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Man, we must look to cause proportionate.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
But my anxiety increased a proportionate amount.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

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