Proportions is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Proportions meaning
plural of proportion
Using Proportions
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of proportion
- In the example corpus, proportions often appears in combinations such as: proportions of, epic proportions, proportions and.
Context around Proportions
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Proportions
- In this selection, "proportions" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, historic, epic, reciprocal, rotated, happening and now stand out and add context to how "proportions" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 50 50 proportions and saw and and hip proportions. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "proportions" sits close to words such as baseman, boil and copied, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with proportions
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A battle of epic proportions now unfolds in the mind of Pil Kilani. (13 words)
An upset of shocking proportions if victorious, but there is technically a chance. (13 words)
Alameda scents a cortado with orange, vanilla and cinnamon — nothing outlandish or alchemical but a drink in perfect proportions. (19 words)
He added that India “historically has given so much not only to the geographical boundaries of your country but what the Indian community historically has given to the globe is just remarkable and has yet to truly be reflected in historical proportions. (42 words)
But to prove the point that more germ cells lead to female turtles, they removed some germ cells from red-eared slider embryos raised at an intermediate temperature that should have yielded 50-50 proportions, and saw more males than expected. (41 words)
Green Party MP Sandrine Rousseau, who had called for the cancellation of the state visit, said: “It’s good that it’s been postponed; it was madness to make this visit in the middle of a social conflict of historic proportions. (41 words)
An error of biblical proportions: Jeopardy! fans explode after ALL three contestants fail to solve simple puzzle about the Lord's Prayer - so do you know the answer? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Each rectangular page has the proportions 1.1 to 1, while the block of text has the reciprocal proportions, 0.91 (the same proportions, rotated 90°).
However, there is a disaster of historic proportions happening right now – and it needs efforts of historic proportions to work on it.
A great contribution to the contrapposto pose was the concept of a canon of proportions, in which mathematical properties are used to create proportions.
A battle of epic proportions now unfolds in the mind of Pil Kilani.
A graph comparing Alaska general and prison populations’ proportions of American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) inmates to other states.
Alameda scents a cortado with orange, vanilla and cinnamon — nothing outlandish or alchemical but a drink in perfect proportions.
An error of biblical proportions: Jeopardy! fans explode after ALL three contestants fail to solve simple puzzle about the Lord's Prayer - so do you know the answer?
An upset of shocking proportions if victorious, but there is technically a chance.
But for me a more destructive element in this country is class injustice which takes on frightening proportions and which characterized 2022 in this land and looks set to continue in 2023.
But to prove the point that more germ cells lead to female turtles, they removed some germ cells from red-eared slider embryos raised at an intermediate temperature that should have yielded 50-50 proportions, and saw more males than expected.
Des Curtis lives in a flat in the affluent Westbourne suburb of Bournemouth, the Dorset resort with one of the highest proportions of centenarians in the country, one of Britain's 'blue zones'.
Despite modernisation, economic growth and rising proportions of employed women in the twentieth century, for a long period of time the earnings gap between women and men hardly closed.
Different models offer different features and it is important to consider dimensions such as height, weight, bust size, waist size, and hip proportions.
From the Peak District, Derbyshire, the gentle giant is harmless despite his epic proportions, and just as easily spooked as Scooby Doo, the famously fearful dog of the same breed.
Galactus is a being of cosmic proportions who can obliterate entire planets like it's nothing, yet even still, the Juggernaut proves to be stronger.
Great proportions, tons of glass, fantastic wheels, and it’s all wrapped up in a badge that’s always been one step off of mainstream.
Green Party MP Sandrine Rousseau, who had called for the cancellation of the state visit, said: “It’s good that it’s been postponed; it was madness to make this visit in the middle of a social conflict of historic proportions.
He added that India “historically has given so much not only to the geographical boundaries of your country but what the Indian community historically has given to the globe is just remarkable and has yet to truly be reflected in historical proportions.
However, despite the variability, there are some common patterns in the types and proportions of microbes in a healthy human body.
In pursuit of all of these, we tend to grow in roughly equal proportions, with 50% coming from gateway conversions and 50% being net new customers.
Common combinations with proportions
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- proportions of 26×
- epic proportions 22×
- proportions and 19×
- the proportions 16×
- biblical proportions 10×
- historic proportions 8×
- proportions in 6×
- proportions with 6×
- proportions are 6×
- highest proportions 5×