Example sentences for: commensurate

How can you use “commensurate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If there was enough discrimination at Texaco to merit a $176 million settlement with the employees, then there was enough discrimination to merit a commensurate payment to Texaco stockholders--not from corporate coffers, but from the personal assets of the corporate executives who bilked their investors by failing to hire the best bargains in the labor market.

  • The losses America suffered that day demonstrated both the gravity of the terrorist threat and the commensurate need to prepare ourselves to meet it.

  • A day in the life presents this newly minted Manhattanite with any number of palms to grease--hands extending from disparately different uniforms and expecting some coinage commensurate with the services their owners provide.

  • Sound professional practice Is the approach taken in each of the specialty areas (architectural, civil, mechanical, and electrical) commensurate with professional standards?

  • And in regional comparisons within the United States, increased levels of spending have not produced a commensurate improvement in health care outcomes.


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