How to Use comparison in a Sentence

comparison

noun
  • I don't think comparisons of her situation and mine are appropriate.
  • By comparison, the broad S&P 500 has popped more than 5% month to date.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Both appearances drew comparisons to Richard Nixon in a suit and wingtips on the beach.
    Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • There have been unfair comparisons with those movies to past movies that opened the summer.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • The goal of the comparison was to get an idea of the scale of emissions of different sizes of LLMs and what impacts them.
    Sasha Luccioni, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The comparisons between the gritty Puka Nacua and the out-of-nowhere Cooper Kupp are inevitable and valid.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The last closure of the Brent Spence Bridge, by comparison, lasted 41 days.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
  • By comparison, the state has recorded 120 flu deaths since late last year.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In terms of looks, the Skylight is a bit unassuming in comparison to the Aura frames.
    Valerie Walsh, wsj.com, 20 Nov. 2023
  • By comparison, the same buyer who needed to save 3% of the purchase price would require two and half years, or 31 months, to save that amount.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In comparison to the 102-degree heat outside, the air inside the restaurant felt cold.
    Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In comparison, the same amount of cannabis once heated contains 10 mg THC.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In comparison, the A.I. large language model took a whole two months to accomplish the same feat.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • By comparison, one quantum dot is to a soccer ball as a soccer ball is to the planet Earth.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That pales in comparison to the U.S., where startups raised $120 billion.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The water waves in Martin's hair appeared to be a lighter chocolate hue in comparison to the rest of her darker brown hair.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Eras Tour film hype had drawn comparisons to other major pop culture events at the theaters this year such as the Barbie film.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Sure, Taylor Swift is not William Shakespeare — but isn’t the comparison making more and more sense?
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • By comparison, a newborn human brain is roughly the size of an adult great ape’s brain.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Still, in comparison to other soccer teams, the England team has been given the short hand.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 12 July 2024
  • Overall, the Eye should be able to power through the next few months well enough, even if year-to-year Nielsen comparisons probably won’t be pretty.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The comparison is pungent but inapt: Archival work is not death work.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • In comparison, none of Will Levis’ 32 attempts were touched at the line of scrimmage, according to the gamebook.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2024
  • By comparison, about half of baby boomers live paycheck to paycheck, compared to 64% of Gen Xers and 66% of Gen Z.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This is Alabama and the comparisons to Wallace are always close by.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 5 July 2023
  • The stakes at hand for the Warriors’ season pale in comparison to the unimaginable loss of life most of this team witnessed firsthand.
    Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For the golfers, Sunday will likely pale in comparison to Saturday in terms of crowd sizes.
    Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the 20th century, by comparison, the Sphinx vanished just three times.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But nobody could have imagined that the little girl featured in it would go on to experience trials and tragedies that make George Bailey’s pale in comparison.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In comparison, the average Santa earns around $60 per hour, according to job search platform ZipRecruiter.
    Megan Sauer,alex Koller,natalie Wu, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024

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