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
  • In the American imagination, the number of suits a person owns is proportionate to their wealth and influence.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But according to the Black and Missing Foundation, the media coverage of white and minority victims is far from proportionate.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023

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