Sample sentences for CORRESPOND

4 meanings

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1 —as in:
corresponding time period

Definition

connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched

(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)

The girls are using a simple code where "1" corresponds to "A", "2" to "B" and so on for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.

corresponds = is equivalent

Other Uses (with this meaning)

All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.

corresponding = matching (going together)

In each option, the benefits correspond with the expense.

correspond = are proportionate

To use the chart, find your height in the left column, your weight in that row, and then look at the corresponding bottom row to see if you should be concerned that you may be overweight.

corresponding = matching (where one is meant to be viewed with the other)

In looking at three different studies, I found that all the findings correspond with each other.

correspond = fit together (by being consistent or similar)

Eskimos have many words that correspond to the English word snow. For example, there are different words for "snow on the ground", "fresh snow on the ground", "soft snow on the ground", "a crust of snow on the ground" and so forth.

correspond = match (are equivalent in a sense)

The bones in a bat's wing exactly correspond to those in a human forearm.

correspond = are equivalent (have similar form)

You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

correspond = connect or fit with

Plato's point was that the relationship between the darkness of the cave and the world beyond corresponds to the relationship between the forms of the natural world and the world of ideas.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

corresponds = are similar (one is equivalent to the other)

The vertical row of connecting rods, so many they seemed to reach the sky far above, slid toward their corresponding holes on the left wall, ready to seal shut until the morning.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

corresponding = matching (going together)

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2 —as in:
corresponding by email

Definition

communicate by writing letters or email

We correspond regularly via email.

correspond = write to each other

Other Uses (with this meaning)

They asked for copies of all my correspondence with her.

correspondence = letters or emails

Do either of you have copies of your correspondence?

correspondence = letters or emails

I used to correspond with them, you know, after I got back to Moscow, and then they suddenly stopped writing.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

correspond = exchange letters through the mail

Much of the correspondence offered support and sympathy for those of us who had returned, but there was also an abundance of scathingly critical letters.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

correspondence = written letters

Not only does he write letters to his Charlotte, he's also carrying on a chatty correspondence with various other people.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

correspondence = communication by writing letters

We talked of our mutual friend, the literary historian Maxwell Geismar, who had introduced us by correspondence a year ago.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

correspondence = a written letter

He has maintained a regular, though not frequent, correspondence ever since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who live without God in the world, and only mind earthly things.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

correspondence = communication by writing letters

I'm sorry I'm such a poor correspondent, Chris; I found myself in a tangle of cases this past month.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

correspondent = someone who communicates in writing

...there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

correspondent = person who wrote the letter

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3 —as in:
a correspondence course

Definition

done from afar

She took a correspondence course while she was in prison.

correspondence = done from afar via written communication

Other Uses (with this meaning)

I live too far away to attend meetings, but they accepted me as a corresponding member.

corresponding = done from afar

I don't live in Los Angeles yet, but I joined the organization as a corresponding member.

corresponding = done from afar

Anything more than correspondence school was out of the question.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse