Example sentences for: proportions

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

  • Based on a least-squares analysis, proportions of individuals with symptoms increased linearly from 40 to 80 h ( r 20.

  • On the occasion of his 50 th birthday, the dancer ascends to mythic proportions with a majestic solo concert.

  • Potassium chloride (KCl), on the other hand, can be made to react with Chile saltpeter (see above) to produce true saltpeter: potassium nitrate (KNO3), an essential ingredient of gunpowder, whose other two components are sulfur and carbon; the three can be combined to explosive effect in as simple proportions by weight as 1, 2, and 3 respectively.

  • This is sharply at odds with the relative proportions in 1988, when the majority of temporary foreign agricultural workers came from Jamaica (12,609) and only 2,499 came from Mexico.

  • The six 3-h embryo collections were mixed in equal proportions to yield a balanced population of embryos representing the first 18 h of embryogenesis.


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