PROPORTION in a Sentence

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164 example sentences for PROPORTION, such as:

1. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase.
2. Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.
3. The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions.
4. But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper.
5. Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROPORTION
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proportion
 n.  percentage; quotient obtained when a part is divided by the whole; part considered in relation to the whole
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)
16  Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.
17  Women make up only a small proportion of the prison population.
18  The proportion of women graduates has increased in recent years.
19  They represent only a tiny proportion of the people who get housing assistance from Washington.
20  The decision affects a significant proportion of the population.
21  These views are held by a significant proportion of the population.
22  As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.
23  Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.
24  Despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters, Nigeria refines only a very small proportion of even its own fuel needs, and has to import the rest - a severe and unnecessary drain on resources.
25  There's been no census since the war began, but it's clear a huge proportion of Sri Lankan Tamils have been uprooted from their homes by this conflict.
26  The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
27  The requirements grow linearly, in proportion to the number of folk.
28  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.
29  Its magnificent proportions make this palace unique among the buildings of the world.
30  The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions.