comparative

How To Use comparative In A Sentence

• She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
• The biggest qualm I have with fair trade is its basic ignorance of comparative advantage.
• Immunoproteomics, a powerful tool for studying antigens at the proteomic level, allowed a comparative investigation of the immunogenicity of capsulate and non-capsulate strains of L. garvieae for vaccine development.
• My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner. Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
• For example, utter the words: "A house is my fire," and observe the comparative duration of time in the pronunciation of each word, the comparative stress, and the relative pitch (e.g. of _a_ and _fire_). The Principles of English Versification
• We used survey methods to conduct a descriptive, comparative, multisite study.
• I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
• In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
• Biogeography and comparative phylogeography differ in their potential to explain incongruent patterns, owing to the disparate time scales.
• Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.