COMPARATIVE in a Sentence

Learn COMPARATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
273 example sentences for COMPARATIVE, such as:
1. The task was accomplished with comparative ease.
2. Had it been but one, it had been easy, comparative.
3. Let's make a comparative study of the two languages.
4. To illustrate my point I have done a comparative analysis.
5. But let us put aside the question of comparative culpability.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPARATIVE
comparative
 a.  estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
 n.  the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  They walked on in silence through the blackness of the hemlock-shaded lane, where Ethan's sawmill gloomed through the night, and out again into the comparative clearness of the fields.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
3  In another minute the whole party was collected in this spot of comparative safety.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  Without assuming the supererogatory task of entering into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the veteran in the approaching interview.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
5  And let it be remembered that these individuals have thus bravely succeeded in conquering for themselves comparative wealth and social position, in the face of every disadvantage and discouragement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  By all means," cried Bingley; "let us hear all the particulars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
9  Perhaps I might; but all that you know is entirely comparative.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  When, from the comparative quiet within, the mummers judged that the dancers had taken their seats, Father Christmas advanced, lifted the latch, and put his head inside the door.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
11  He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
12  Had it been but one, it had been easy, comparative.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  He had given me some reason to infer that it was his impatience of comparative poverty that drove him out there.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
14  But let us put aside the question of comparative culpability.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  To illustrate my point I have done a comparative analysis.
2  Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
3  In a poor country, owning a bicycle is a sign of comparative wealth.
4  Publishers here enjoy comparative freedom to publish what they want.
5  The presentation of comparative figures has been adjusted to reflect the new standard.
6  Given the existence of resource mobility in a single country, the exploitation of comparative advantage is possible.
7  In comparative politics, the political scientist compares countries in an effort to verify the theories that have been formulated.
8  Let's make a comparative study of the two languages.
9  The task was accomplished with comparative ease.
10  Elsewhere in the report which covers a wide range of comparative data, girls continue to reduce the gender gap in educational performance.
11  One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
12  I am optimistic enough to hope that we shall sail in comparatively smooth waters.
13  As Apple embraces streaming, the worry for artists is that comparatively lucrative download sales will make way for parsimonious streaming payouts.
14  The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
15  The hotel certainly compared favourably with the one we stayed in last year.