How to Use commensurate in a Sentence

commensurate

adjective

• Her new position came with a commensurate level of responsibility.
• The scope and tenor of his vision seem commensurate with the task at hand.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• That said, the risk might be commensurate with the reward.
  — Mark Goodman, The Denver Post, 12 July 2019
• But the levels of play and pay are not commensurate any longer.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• As a result, the yield on debt has jumped at a commensurate rate.
  — Vidhura S. Tennekoon, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• But if justice is the goal, then the consequences have to be commensurate with the crime.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• Here’s the main thing: As a matter of pride, players like to be paid commensurate with their peers.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• The rate of return should always be commensurate with the amount of risk involved.
  — Andrew Schena, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• The Giants will have to make room for him on the 40-man roster; a commensurate move is expected to make space.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2022
• Unlike a record player—or the reel-to-reel tape player—the boom box was both portable and commensurate with the scale and the volume of the city.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• The color of the smoke is commensurate with burning metal, too.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• Last year, for the first time since 2013, the city’s murder rate dropped just below what is deemed commensurate with civil war.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2022
• There are no commensurate websites for women to stare at men’s thighs or crossed legs, let alone men’s feet or armpits.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• This is commensurate with the plane’s location at that point.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• The enormous stakes in the race so far have not been matched by commensurate public interest.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Partly, that's because many of these workers are on the job for weeks or months on end, then receive a commensurate amount of time off.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2020
• But Democrats and Republicans alike seemed to grasp the enormity of the crisis and the need for a commensurate response.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• This is their way of pushing back on the demands of long hours without pay that is commensurate with their efforts.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• It’s the kind of movie for which the enjoyment level is directly commensurate with the size of the audience.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Health scholars have long pointed out that the funding of WHO is not commensurate with the global role it is supposed to play.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2020
• If Chauvin and the others are not found guilty, Boyd said the nation should expect a response at least commensurate with the protests sparked by Floyd's death.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• There may be a case to be made that a concentration of Guston’s work at the Met is commensurate with his achievement.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• The House has a rule that a tax cut cannot be passed without commensurate expenditure cuts.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 25 July 2019
• The front-seat passengers sit a commensurate amount lower, with their legs out straighter.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
• No one is going to give you commensurate value for one season (or two months) of Mookie Betts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• Our girls granted us all rights of possession and a commensurate license to pry.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• But the service is commensurate — assured, agreeable and far from stuffy.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram.com, 30 May 2017
• Still, the small number of disciplinary actions is in no way commensurate with the kind of abuse and neglect that seems to be prevalent in the system, critics say.
  — USA Today, 18 Mar. 2021
• Committees, planning and mentoring are part of the work, but the final salary must be commensurate with the full workload.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The bank has defended its profits as commensurate with the risk involved.
  — Yantoultra Ngui, WSJ, 4 July 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024