Example sentences for: commensurate

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

  • IRS spent more than $3 billion in the late 1980s and early 1990s on systems modernization without producing commensurate value.

  • has been a level of punishment that was commensurate with the failures of the president to act appropriately."

  • If Ron Brown had been the only administration official willing and able to sell out to the Vietnamese, he could have extracted a price commensurate with the multimillion-dollar value of his product.

  • The play is "an aesthetic non-event, an anticlimax of proportions inevitably commensurate with its avalanche of advance publicity" (Charles Isherwood, Daily Variety ). (Order tickets to the show online.)

  • A firm and commensurate response was essential to protect our sovereignty, to send a message to those who engage in state-sponsored terrorism, to deter further violence against our people, and to affirm the expectation of civilized behavior among nations."


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