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).

  • A systematic random sampling strategy was then used to select a proportionate number of grid cells from each stratum.

  • Each of the centroid patterns is then recalculated as the weighted mean of all of the gene-expression patterns in the dataset, where each gene's weight is proportionate to its membership in the corresponding cluster (see Materials and methods for details regarding the calculations).

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

  • 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.


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