Sample sentences for RESPECTIVE

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relating separately to the people or things just mentioned

Our salespeople are paid in accordance with their respective sales.

respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned

California and Texas have about 40 and 30 million people respectively.

respectively = separately in the specified order

Some state judges are appointed by governors of their respective states. Others are elected.

respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned

Although originally written under a pseudonym, this version of The Federalist Papers has the real name of each author included with their respective essays.

respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned

As it was, we were compelled to hold our heads high and be, respectively, a gentleman and a lady.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

respectively = separately in the specified order

They knew each other through their respective books, and were soon talking excitedly.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
Even Ali's older JV field hockey friends had returned from their respective colleges; they stood in a teary huddle near the door.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
He explained about their respective disabilities, and he spent some time describing their personalities and what it had been like to study under them.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
With the mail clerk's departure, Emile and Andrey looked down at their respective envelopes in wonder.
Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
From then on, whenever they called our respective faiths to action, we would sing out to each other: "Work it out for me, Piper!"
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
Rogojin and the prince each approached the house on his respective side of the road; Rogojin, who was on the near side, beckoned the prince across.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism each have founder figures—Muhammad, Jesus, and the Buddha, respectively.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
And this is how, on any given evening, one could hear not one but two families calling for their respective Jeemees.
Dumas Firoozeh -- Funny in Farsi
We rinse out the used cans and empty bottles and put them in their respective bins.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
He hit the brakes, swerving slightly, as two other cups crashed against the back door and sunroof, respectively.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
You had now to look about for two victims whose names began with A and B respectively and who lived at places also beginning with those same letters.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France, respectively, oppose the Chartists and the Reformistes.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
There, as wont, the guns' crews stood by their respective cannon erect and silent.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
But even the C.E.T. delegates betrayed the fiction of that calm as they returned to their respective congregations.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

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