Sample Sentences forproportionate (auto-selected)
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Distant galaxies are receding at speeds proportionate to their distance.proportionate = appropriately related
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Man, we must look to cause proportionate.† (source)
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This shouldn't matter, but it does: the sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.† (source)
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I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown.† (source)
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The seriousness of such an occasion is directly proportionate to the number of bodily emissions you are asked to cull for analysis.† (source)
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If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment.† (source)
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Even the furniture looked sickly and disproportionate.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionate reverses the meaning of proportionate. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighborhood.† (source)
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His nose is disproportionately big for his face, and kind of fleshy.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionately reverses the meaning of proportionately. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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She was three or four inches shorter than I was and proportionately smaller.† (source)
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I know Peeta and I won, but a disproportionate amount of time is spent on us, right from the beginning.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color.† (source)
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He needs a bigger container, but not proportionately bigger.† (source)
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And it seemed that lately a disproportionate number of those chosen were from New Beijing and the surrounding suburbs.† (source)
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Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.† (source)
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