pale in/by comparison to/with

idiom

: to seem less important, good, serious, etc., when compared with (something else)

The afternoon meal paled in comparison to/with the feast they had later.

Last year's losses pale by comparison with this year's.

Examples of pale in/by comparison to/with in a Sentence

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And yet, all of those themes seem to pale in comparison to the relationship between parent and child, an enduring circle of life that never grows old. —Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024

But, for the most part, all of these experiences pale in comparison to the other games that are being aped, the ones that are the apex of their genre. —Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024

But the economic stakes of such deals will generally pale in comparison with those struck with the United States, given the vastly larger scale of the U.S. market. —Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024

But even those lies pale in comparison to what is happening at the Dominican border. —Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024