PROPORTION in a Sentence

Learn PROPORTION 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.
164 example sentences for PROPORTION, such as:
1. His success is in proportion to his effort.
2. A large proportion of old people live alone.
3. The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.
4. His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.
5. A large proportion of the students were sick last week.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROPORTION
proportion
 n.  the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
 n.  harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
2  In proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
3  In proportion as leisure came to him with fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
4  In proportion as he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
5  In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him draw back.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
6  The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
7  But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened mechanically, as it were.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
8  The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
9  All hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
10  In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
11  And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
12  Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage sense to the metaphorical sense.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
13  Those pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin to one hundred of brass is exceeded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
14  In proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled the barricade more and more.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
15  But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  A large proportion of old people live alone.
2  His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.
3  A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
4  His success is in proportion to his effort.
5  A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.
6  The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.
7  The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.
8  A fixed proportion of the fund is invested in British firms.
9  The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups.
10  A large proportion of their income comes from benefactions.
11  His expenditure on pleasure and luxuries is rather high in proportion to his income.
12  A large proportion of the students were sick last week.
13  The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.
14  Every parent is asked to contribute a proportion of the total cost.
15  The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small.