How to Use in proportion to in a Sentence

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• The grapes gain depth in proportion to the amount of work the vine must expend to survive.
  — Alex Halberstadt, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Stock splits have the effect of reducing the share price in proportion to the ratio of the split.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Still, in proportion to our body size, the human brain is bigger than that of the sperm whale.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2022
• The piece is like a clockwise radar scan and the volume changes in proportion to brightness.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• My father—a naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
• My father—a Naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• In that pursuit, Clark crafts a response in proportion to the elision.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• Like other Democratic plans, the map is designed to award seats to each party in proportion to their share of the statewide vote.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
• Walk north to find the rest of the planets spaced in proportion to how they’re actually spaced in the solar system.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Almost in proportion to the seriousness of the demand that is being made of me.
  — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The way that options traders deal with this is to sell futures in proportion to the probability that oil will end up below $70.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
• The capacitance varies with the change in the facing area, which changes substantially in proportion to the depth of depression of the button.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
• These will be distributed to the IMF’s 190 member countries in proportion to their quotas.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 July 2021
• In terms of migratory feats, hummers go the farthest of any bird in proportion to body length, according to LeBaron.
  — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
• In his view, the tax credit process, which pays developer fees based in proportion to the total cost of a project, creates an incentive to spend more.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The party winning the vote in each county or large town got seats in proportion to the location’s population.
  — Jon X. Eguia, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• In other lattices, those two kinds of distances grow in proportion to one another.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• But her recognition was never quite in proportion to the significance of her work.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• My thoughts are that the intensity, presence and performance will increase in proportion to the countdown of the takes, so that the last take could be a sensation, a magnum opus.
  — Ruben Östlund, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Officially, the arrangement varies toe-in at the rear wheels in proportion to cornering loads.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 26 June 2023
• In each case, the justices cited language that says the maps can’t be drawn to favor a party, and that directs the districts to favor each party to win seats in proportion to their share of the recent statewide vote.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 5 May 2022
• The Mega Millions game will get back all the money that state contributed to the unclaimed jackpot, while the Powerball money must be returned to all lotteries in proportion to their sales for the draw run.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
• The idea that all objects attract in proportion to their mass was a revolutionary idea that became a huge boon for understanding the ways of the universe.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• The heat generated grows in proportion to the volume—but the chips dissipate heat at a rate proportional to surface area.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• All public broadcasters are required to meet the quota, which is set in proportion to their programme hours each calendar year.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• When plants drove the diversification of plant-eating beetles, the number of new beetle lineages was more or less in proportion to the number of new plant species.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• The concentration of this toxic gas increased in proportion to how many burners were used and for how long; it was most pronounced in small kitchens and those with poor ventilation.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2022
• The desirability of access to Bluesky has increased in proportion to the precarity of the service.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• Survey-takers then chose randomly from among those subgroups in proportion to the population as a whole.
  — Camille Mumford, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• The series of insights began in 1972, when Hawking showed (opens a new tab) that a black hole’s size — specifically its spherical surface area — always increases in proportion to the mass of whatever falls into it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024