proportionate

How To Use proportionate In A Sentence

• But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
• Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present. Synthetic Tannins
• Managerial and middle-class occupations are over-represented in its ranks, while the working class is proportionately under-represented.
• Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
• Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
• You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
• Scotland, as ever playing a disproportionate role in scientific breakthroughs, has had a significant part in the biogenetic revolution.
• The price increases are proportionate to the increases in the costs of production.
• The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
• Readings take up a disproportionate amount of my time and, more importantly, emotional energy, I find.