Corollary is an English word with synonyms like consequence or aftermath. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Corollary in a sentence
Corollary meaning
- A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
- An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
- A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
Synonyms of Corollary
Using Corollary
- The main meaning on this page is: A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity. | An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort. | A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
- Useful related words include: consequence, aftermath, inference, illation.
- In the example corpus, corollary often appears in combinations such as: corollary of, corollary to, as corollary.
Context around Corollary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Corollary
- In this selection, "corollary" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, inevitable, unspoken, obvious, concerning, buildings and questions stand out and add context to how "corollary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a corollary of this and a direct corollary to one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "corollary" sits close to words such as abbasid, acrobatics and admissible, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with corollary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kind of a corollary to my comment. (7 words)
And its corollary: 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story. (15 words)
The answer’s unreliable unless the inevitable corollary questions that go with it are also asked. (16 words)
When the truth is, those Alabama teams were excellent and fantastically coached and had less to do with the competition they faced and more with a direct corollary to one of the best college coaches to ever walk the sideline. (40 words)
Corollary concerning midpoints and endpoints of chords A corollary of the above discussion is that if a parabola has several parallel chords, their midpoints all lie on a line which is parallel to the axis of symmetry. (37 words)
They don’t want to pay payroll taxes on tips that they are handling, but the unspoken corollary is that they would like to handle those tips in order to take a portion of them. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Corollary concerning midpoints and endpoints of chords A corollary of the above discussion is that if a parabola has several parallel chords, their midpoints all lie on a line which is parallel to the axis of symmetry.
The inevitable corollary to hatred is hate propaganda which often ingrains itself in a social system where the social degradation of the subject occupies the forefront of political discourse.
The obvious corollary is that everyone’s a dummy during a bear market… except maybe for a few dedicated short-sellers.
And as a positive corollary, these wars claimed to be liberating oppressed women, protecting human rights, and fostering democracy.
The fact, for example, that the very possession of nuclear weapons constitutes a sin is a sort of corollary to what the Church already says on the topic of complete disarmament.
The unspoken corollary: Buildings and streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks belong in the Black community.
When the truth is, those Alabama teams were excellent and fantastically coached and had less to do with the competition they faced and more with a direct corollary to one of the best college coaches to ever walk the sideline.
A corollary of this is that the left loves to self-describe it’s ideas as ‘radical’ – in turn doing our opponents’ dirty work for ourselves.
A good judicial corollary might be that if you need 6 pages to justify not using one letter… that’s the worse position.
Kind of a corollary to my comment.
The corollary to the idea that evil New Yorkers are spreading the virus around the country seems to be that good New Yorkers stay at home.
And its corollary: 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.
And there is a corollary: When there is a difference of opinion at the Justice Department, someone gets to decide.
As a corollary, he missed no opportunity to accuse Hunt of being “a defeatist”, “totally defeatist”, and, by implication, the grey inheritor of Theresa May’s “managerialist approach”.
But it was the logical corollary of the breaking off of the Iran deal that had been already pushed through by Trump, despite the implacable opposition of America’s European allies.
Sources said the decision to even take questions was taken as a natural corollary of being the representative of a democratic country.
The answer’s unreliable unless the inevitable corollary questions that go with it are also asked.
The corollary to forcing fairly low-percentage shots is limiting turnovers, because Duke will murder you when it gets easy opportunities in transition.
There is an interesting corollary to this where people who fight the demand for conformity bizarrely conform in their non-conformity.
They don’t want to pay payroll taxes on tips that they are handling, but the unspoken corollary is that they would like to handle those tips in order to take a portion of them.
Common combinations with corollary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- corollary of 17×
- corollary to 11×
- as corollary 9×
- corollary is 5×
- the corollary 5×
- inevitable corollary 2×
- of corollary 2×
- unspoken corollary 2×
- direct corollary 2×
- its corollary 2×