How to Use inversely proportional in a Sentence

inversely proportional

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• The study indicates that the unemployment rate and inflation are inversely proportional.
• The pressure that acts on the plates is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the distance between the plates.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Your chances of having such an effect are inversely proportional to how much the issue matters at that moment.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
• Their puny masses would be inversely proportional to those of the heavy neutrinos that arose in the early universe.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
• Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2024
• My anxiety around humans was inversely proportional to my comfort in the cage with the bonobos.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• So an axion would behave more like a wave (or wave packet) than a particle, and the size of the wave packets is inversely proportional to their mass.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
• This force depends on the mass of both objects and has a magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of the two bodies.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021
• Buying a truck can be a lesson on the paradox of choice, which says that happiness is inversely proportional to the number of options available.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
• Fairly or not, people's reverence for weddings tends to be inversely proportional to their number.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The magnitude of this force is proportional to the product of the masses of the two objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
• Much like a single dish, the resolution of such a virtual telescope is inversely proportional to its physical size.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
• Given this, black holes that aren't actively gobbling up material gradually shrink at a rate that is inversely proportional to its mass.
  — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
• To be sure, the theory of lipstick sales and economic health being inversely proportional can be hard to break down in the broader beauty category.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Mar. 2024
• Nathan’s professional growth and ability to keep it in his pants are apparently inversely proportional.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• And since ozone concentration is inversely proportional to temperature, a warmer stratosphere equates to depletion of the ozone layer.
  — Martin N. Ross, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2020
• Her singular dedication to playing Kitty to her fullest extent, bottle smashing and all, is inversely proportional to how much range there is to play.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• There’s a running theory on Reddit that the length of Nicolas Cage’s hair in a movie is inversely proportional to the quality of the film.
  — Emily Heller, Vulture, 12 July 2024
• Moreover, this universe features a refractive index — a measurement of how light rays bend — that is inversely proportional to the temperature.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
• The amount of assist supplied is inversely proportional to vehicle speed, with the highest levels of assist provided at lower vehicle speeds.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2019
• All watching this saga cannot help but note that the ability to obtain a guilty plea by those prosecuting the president and his supporters is inversely proportional to the wealth of the defendant.
  — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• Each electron wave has a momentum that is inversely proportional to its wavelength and a kinetic energy proportional to the square of its momentum.
  — Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• The number of steps per unit of distance is inversely proportional to body length (smaller creatures must take many more steps to cover the same distance), while the work accomplished for each step is proportional to body mass.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• But the event’s outcome is ultimately decided by the machinations of powerful guys whose ruthlessness seems inversely proportional to their health.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
• One of the oldest traditions in workout design is that of making the intensity and the duration of intervals inversely proportional.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• The researchers found that mannose sensitivity was inversely proportional to the levels of an enzyme that helps metabolize mannose.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
• As a result, the success of conifers and edibles is typically an inversely proportional relationship.
  — Colin McCrate, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• The amount of gravitational attraction between two objects is proportional to the masses of those objects, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
• The total capital returned to shareholders as a percentage of the current market cap seems inversely proportional to growth potential for reinvestments.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Prestigious private schools typically have a low student-teacher ratio, while in public schools class size is often inversely proportional to funding — the less funding, the larger the classes.
  — David Buice, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020