Example sentences for: proportionate

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

  • However, obese people given injections of the hormone leptin in a study lost weight proportionate to dosage and lost fat cells only (25 percent of weight loss from diet and exercise is bone and muscle).

  • If that view was credited, then current policies might be proportionate.

  • 10 For such grants, the investment shall be allocated among stewardship elements on the basis of an estimate of the proportionate funding of the various grant objectives.

  • But the formula for benefit payouts isn't proportionate to what is paid in: Low-income people get more (not in absolute terms, but compared with their contributions), while affluent retirees get less.

  • In fact, CBO estimates that 1 percent of the total annual spending will be for administrative costs, but that a proportionate share of the costs to currently administer these agencies will be transferred.


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