How to Use relative to in a Sentence

relative to

preposition
  • The encounter occurred on the far side of the sun, relative to Earth.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The debt relative to the size of the economy will soon hit an all-time high.
    Chris Edwards, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Keep in mind, these dates are relative to the average date of the last killing freeze.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers then plotted these relative to the black hole and its jets.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The euro is down about 10% relative to the U.S. dollar over the past two years and about 20% lower than long-term trends.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Here, the influx of profits drove up the value of the krone relative to the euro.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Dusk and dawn are the times relative to the sun’s daytime rotation.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
  • And what is the performance of this asset relative to the benchmark.
    Byjustin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 24 July 2023
  • And what is the substance with the least social stigma relative to using it?
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In 2021, the redder a county was, the more its turnout increased relative to four years prior.
    Tia Yang, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Due to his play relative to his age, Chourio shot up prospect rankings while with the Mudcats.
    Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
  • When does the Wasteland take place relative to Furiosa?
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • Each card has a point value and a pictogram that tells you which tiles on the board the card affects relative to its position.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
  • His 6-9 wingspan, however, is one of the longest relative to height in this year’s draft class.
    Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Women tend to have stronger quadriceps relative to their hamstrings, and to land more flat-footed and with stiffer knees.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a bargain relative to the costs of inaction, but much of it will be borne by governments.
    Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The state’s median income declined relative to the US level over the past five decades.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • What the radar pulses really detect is change, so that the clarity of one spot on the map is only relative to the spot next to it.
    Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • The trajectories of the schools will be interlocked, relative to the strength of their new conferences, for years to come.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • What the Washington primary showed this August was a slight uptick for Democrats, relative to 2022, of about three points.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • If a show gets high viewership relative to the cost of producing it, it gets renewed.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Some power producers switch to coal from natural gas when the price of the latter is high enough relative to the former.
    Bob Henderson, WSJ, 12 July 2023
  • This would produce data that tells you how the car deforms, or moves relative to itself, during a crash.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • And in the case of the United States, which is still widely considered a safe-haven investment relative to the rest of the world, that is unlikely to change any time soon.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Here are the solutions from the last year that most surprised the bot, along with what the bot thought was their likelihood of appearing, relative to the most common words.
    Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Also, a full moon, King Tide and the orientation of the shoreline relative to how waves hit makes a difference.
    John McCarthy, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
  • That rise in home prices comes despite the fact mortgage rates are sky-high relative to recent memory.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • An interest rate of, say, five percent, would be a good deal for the seller relative to what banks are paying on deposits.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • That’s why eyes are often so large relative to people’s heads in animation.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But much of the content is depoliticized, especially relative to a daily newspaper or an evening newscast in the past.
    Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024

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