How to Use corollary in a Sentence

corollary

noun

• The corollary to Rule 2 is that the best defense is a good offense.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• The corollary is that anyone who does it more than once is a fool.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The corollary is that anyone who does it more than once is a fool.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• The corollary of this is that, when an ice sheet melts, and its mass is removed, the crust springs back.
  — Robin Wylie, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2014
• The corollary of giving your own hooks is to ask questions that bring out the hooks in others.
  — Alisa Cohn, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• The corollary to this, of course, is: Grown-ups need to listen up and pay attention.
  — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
• My corollary is to find someone who will listen to you for 50 years.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
• Not much mentioned is the corollary: That means three-quarters would rather see the question go away.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 22 June 2019
• That counts as a great success, but the corollary is that the remaining problems are hard to talk about.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• As a corollary, the percentage of white voters was at a new low of 73.3 percent.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• But most of the stuff in modern day seems sort of not a direct corollary to anything that's going on now.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• The corollary was that leaving the Windows world for a Mac was very costly indeed.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• And to a corollary: Why pay any attention to their forecasts?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The obvious corollary is that the alien broadcasters may have long since cashed in their chips.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2018
• The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
  — Ellevate, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Freedom of speech embodies not only the right to speak, but also its corollary: the right not to speak.
  — Ethan Blevins, National Review, 14 July 2017
• The corollary to that is there is another way to do politics.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 10 July 2018
• Heat days — the corollary to more common snow days — are the new thing, and experts say families should expect more of the same in the coming years.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Is there a corollary for men, a genre of self-help books aimed at helping men cope with the stigma of their living-alone status?
  — Ashley Fetters, Curbed, 20 June 2018
• There is a corollary to Petraeus's adage that is relevant not to war but to peace agreements: The allies get a vote, too.
  — Eli Lake Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
• The prostate is a male reproductive organ and the uterus is its female corollary.
  — Dr. Jared G. Heiner, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
• The sometimes explicit corollary was that white people were the natural rulers of the globe.
  — Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• The corollary to keeping the decision circle too small is putting the wrong people inside it.
  — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
• Within the space of a chapter, Adam’s alertness to fraud will come to seem a corollary of his own prodigious fraudulence.
  — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• The corollary is that if their plans fail to pass, unreasonable obstruction must be to blame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• There is a political corollary here or string of jokes but let’s just watch the last college football game in peace.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 8 Jan. 2018
• The corollary to that statement is that the passionate collectors who were priced out of the market at peak hype have returned.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
• Unfortunately there’s a corollary to that, and that’s that the higher pilots goes, the more people can see them—and fire.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
• But the gravest trouble ahead is an inevitable corollary of Finland and Sweden’s accession to the alliance.
  — Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
• And, as a corollary, the United States is willing to defer to Gulf countries, which do not necessarily share core American interests in the region.
  — Johnnie Carson, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024