How to Use proportionate in a Sentence

proportionate

adjective

• Each investor will receive a proportionate share of the profits.
• The size of the blue bubbles is proportionate to the size of the Bitcoin network in the U.S.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Just remember to keep the size of the splurge proportionate with the size of the windfall.
  — Bruce Helmer and Peg Webb, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
• First, the use of force must be proportionate to the force employed by the aggressor.
  — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2021
• The difference in dates is proportionate to the wage gap.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Warren, the 11th seed, lacked a proportionate sense of luck.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Lake County News-Sun, 17 May 2018
• The number of seats per ZIP code is proportionate to the share of school-age children living there.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• Praise had to be earned in language that was proportionate.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The diameter of the bubble is proportionate to the value of one of the variables.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.
  — V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• The odds for the remaining teams will increase on a proportionate basis for the second draw, based on which team wins the No. 1 pick.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
• Each mask is a little better than the one before it, the seams more even, the proportions more proportionate.
  — Arthur Longworth, The New York Review of Books, 12 Apr. 2020
• Perhaps that was true when the cost of a college education was proportionate with salaries earned in the first five years out.
  — Karen Weaver, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• The fun part of dressing the little guys was making sure the accessories were proportionate.
  — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
• The bad news is that, as more kids come down with Covid, the proportionate number who get hospitalized is going up as well.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 13 Aug. 2021
• Whether a more proportionate House is a fairer House is a harder question.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Any undistributed money from draws will be pooled and shared between all clubs in the group stage in amounts proportionate to their number of wins - win more, earn more.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2019
• Big dogs, like Danes, tend to have larger litters proportionate to their larger size.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• At that point, the owner pays the original loan amount and a proportionate share of any increase in the home’s value (determined by the sales price or an appraisal).
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• After the first lottery draw, the odds for the remaining teams will increase on a proportionate basis for the second lottery draw, based on which team wins the No. 1 pick.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2023
• Sunak had planned to give a speech explaining his more proportionate approach to the climate emergency later in the week.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• One aspect of this is the use of disproportionate force—that the extent of the harm done to civilians should be proportionate to your military goals.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• Fifteen years of forced hard labor, bound ankle to wrist in chains, simply wasn’t proportionate to the offense of fudging a payroll ledger.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 28 June 2018
• But the increase wasn’t proportionate across the different cities within the county.
  — Yoohyun Jung, Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2022
• To be fair to Kardashian, this was kind of a proportionate reaction to the jewelry in question.
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 3 Nov. 2021
• The default for payment of estate taxes: If an estate tax is due, then each person who takes a bequest by will has to pay a proportionate share.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
• The odds for the remaining non-playoff clubs will increase on a proportionate basis for the second lottery draw (based on which club wins the first lottery draw) and again for the third lottery draw.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2018
• Nobody said eating the rich was going to be pretty or proportionate.
  — Jessica Kiang, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Our search for criminal sentences proportionate to the crime is a quest to find a fair but adequate punishment.
  — WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• The court agreed with prosecutors that Assange could pose a flight risk, but said detention would not be proportionate.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 4 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024