in proportion
Example Sentences
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His bolshiness seemed to grow in proportion with his height.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The plain old S&P 500 represents those companies in proportion to their market capitalization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
With those figures, a $30,000 contribution to your condo, while not insignificant, is relatively small in proportion to the overall asset.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026
A good framework is to hold non-U.S. stocks in proportion to the world equity market.
From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026
It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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