How to Use proportional in a Sentence

proportional

adjective

• The features of the face in the drawing are proportional.
• The head is the same, but the neck is a bit longer to make the robot more proportional overall.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• The change in electrical current is proportional to the amount of gas in the air.
  — Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 7 June 2023
• The number of flares and CMEs that occur is proportional to the number of sunspots on the solar disk.
  — Matthew Cappucci and Joe Kunches, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The size of each square is proportional to the approximate area of each place.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• And just as the size of the event horizon is proportional to the black hole's mass, so, too, is the black hole's shadow: the more massive the black hole, the larger the shadow.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• In this case, the entropy is proportional to the three-dimensional volume of the box, not the area.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• Inertia is proportional to a body's mass, or the amount of matter that a body has.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• If two shapes are similar, the angle measures are the same and the side lengths are proportional.
  — Mark Wolfmeyer, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2022
• The proportional increase is less than the male fighting force, which has more than tripled over the same period.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Putting a piece on either generates a new piece on the other that is proportional. Pick the shape up with your mouse, then place it on a grid made of black-and-white squares.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• Bar width is proportional to the age group’s share of the total population.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• The audit found a sharp increase in the number of hospices in L.A. County since 2010 without a proportional need for end-of-life care.
  — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Israel has launched a counter strike into Palestine, which has reached a proportional death toll there as well.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2023
• As its name suggests, this means that each electoral group or party receives a number of seats that is proportional to its share of the vote.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The rebates aren’t targeted to need or proportional to gas use.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
• Fs = -kx) states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is proportional to that distance.
  — WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
• Will the breakdown of Democratic and Republican seats be proportional to how the state votes as a whole?
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• Some men might just carry excess fat in their breasts, so exercise can help to reduce the area down to a more proportional size.
  — Lara Rosenbaum, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• The weakness of Russia’s claimed just cause means that this war cannot be considered proportional.
  — Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2022
• Meanwhile, the volume of each note is proportional to the brightness of the particular section of the image.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
• This approach takes time proportional to the number of boxes.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
• That’s in part because of how much fuel is used in fishing boats proportional to the end-product amount of protein obtained.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Since Illinois produces mostly pumpkins for the can, the proportional amount of waste there is lower.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• Both percentages are not proportional to the Black population in the U.S., which sits at 14%.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• If the preliminary data holds, the increase would be the biggest proportional increase the state has seen since 1972, the report said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
• And yet, sometimes, in communicating changing or proportional ideas, words just aren’t the right tool for the task.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Jan. 2022
• The key lesson clients need to learn is what constitutes an acceptable risk proportional to their wealth.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• Den Nijs’ work predicted that the chance of finding one arm in a hexagonal grid is proportional to $latex 1/n^{5/48}$, where n is the number of tiles from the center to the edge, or the radius of the grid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• Each candidate gets a certain number of delegates proportional to the vote percentage received in the state contests.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024