commensurate

Example Sentences

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Commensurate with the happiness that had been hers during those ten minutes came now her remorse.

From Across the Years by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

For my view of the Infinite is this: that although beyond the Finite, or, as one might say, the Commensurate, there may or may not be a---- Just a moment.

From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

Commensurate is the more precise and learned word, signifying that which exactly measures the matter in question.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Whose awe and wonder are in touch With Nature,—speaking rapture to Your soul,—yet leaving in your reach No human word of thought or speech Commensurate with the thing you view.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius