How to Use in proportion to in a Sentence

in proportion to

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• The grapes gain depth in proportion to the amount of work the vine must expend to survive.
  — Alex Halberstadt, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Still, in proportion to our body size, the human brain is bigger than that of the sperm whale.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2022
• The piece is like a clockwise radar scan and the volume changes in proportion to brightness.
  — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
• Prices are manageable, but have gone up in proportion to demand.
  — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
• Stock splits have the effect of reducing the share price in proportion to the ratio of the split.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• In that pursuit, Clark crafts a response in proportion to the elision.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• But the Ohio race comes in third for ad spending in proportion to the number of people in the state who might vote.
  — Stephen Neukam, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• My father—a naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
• In other lattices, those two kinds of distances grow in proportion to one another.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• Walk north to find the rest of the planets spaced in proportion to how they’re actually spaced in the solar system.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Almost in proportion to the seriousness of the demand that is being made of me.
  — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The average rebate amount varied from year to year, in proportion to the size of the state’s budget surplus.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• My father—a Naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• But her recognition was never quite in proportion to the significance of her work.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Like other Democratic plans, the map is designed to award seats to each party in proportion to their share of the statewide vote.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
• Featuring a small 32 mm case, the watch is perfectly in proportion to the actor’s wrist.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025
• Also, the depth of the stream varies directly in proportion to recent rainfall in the watershed.
  — arkansasonline.com, 6 July 2025
• One familiar type of relationship is when two quantities go up or down in proportion to each other.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 18 June 2020
• The party winning the vote in each county or large town got seats in proportion to the location’s population.
  — Jon X. Eguia, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• Officially, the arrangement varies toe-in at the rear wheels in proportion to cornering loads.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 26 June 2023
• All public broadcasters are required to meet the quota, which is set in proportion to their programme hours each calendar year.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• This stems from the fact that employee premium shares typically rise in proportion to overall plan costs.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
• Survey-takers then chose randomly from among those subgroups in proportion to the population as a whole.
  — Camille Mumford, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• In his view, the tax credit process, which pays developer fees based in proportion to the total cost of a project, creates an incentive to spend more.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The way that options traders deal with this is to sell futures in proportion to the probability that oil will end up below $70.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
• The intensity of the other parents’ reactions felt in proportion to what was happening on the court.
  — Janelle Jones, Parents, 28 Jan. 2026
• The heat generated grows in proportion to the volume—but the chips dissipate heat at a rate proportional to surface area.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• The capacitance varies with the change in the facing area, which changes substantially in proportion to the depth of depression of the button.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
• For instance, Arizona ranked as the second state with the fewest charities in proportion to the population.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
• In terms of migratory feats, hummers go the farthest of any bird in proportion to body length, according to LeBaron.
  — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022