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proportions

How to use proportions in a sentence

It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

The latter-named proportions may in some measure account for "what becomes of the pins?"

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

He threw out his arms, as if trying to indicate the proportions of a great world or of an enormous ocean.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

It not only brought about the instant beginnings of the siege, but its proportions were grossly exaggerated in the public eye.

Here Letty drew the coverlet from the face of the sleeping babe, and displayed his chubby proportions with maternal pride.

It was all cherry satin and white lace, the furniture lilliputian, to match the proportions of the room and the lady.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

The proportions of this cone to its height would be about the same as the general shape of spires in England.

Into this mass a number of other substances enter in varying but always relatively very small proportions.

The diminished proportions of the less to the greater number also increases the proportion of glory.

Sometimes the galleries of coal mines are overhung with beautiful proportions of extinct vegetable forms.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985