COMPARATIVELY in a Sentence

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It was a much safer place for a gentleman in his predicament: he might there be important at comparatively little expense.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPARATIVELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
comparatively
 ad.  relatively; in comparison
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leaned closer and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He gave up high-stake card games and stayed comparatively sober.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  There was no date, but the blackness of the ink proved the writing to be comparatively recent.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
5  They are comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen yards round the waist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
6  For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem to the learned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
7  As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
8  As the day approached when he was to leave her for a comparatively long stay, she grew melting and affectionate, remembering his many acts of consideration and his repeated expressions of an ardent attachment.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
9  Some built comparatively large ones, while others seems content with little ones.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  Rumour reported that Drebber had managed to convert a large part of his property into money, and that he had departed a wealthy man, while his companion, Stangerson, was comparatively poor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11  Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
12  Julia's elopement could affect her comparatively but little; she was amazed and shocked; but it could not occupy her, could not dwell on her mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
13  When she reached the more wealthy quarter of the town, the streets were comparatively deserted; and here her headlong progress excited a still greater curiosity in the stragglers whom she hurried past.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  It was a much safer place for a gentleman in his predicament: he might there be important at comparatively little expense.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  "Yes, yes, to the inn," repeated Captain Wentworth, comparatively collected, and eager to be doing something.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
16  The steamer was a well-found craft compared with any others that had navigated the river before.
17  "In choosing a husband," she said, "good birth is of overbearing importance; compared to that, neither wealth nor talent signifies."
18  He reports almost 16,000 incidents of fake notes in the first three months of 2006, a staggering 92 percent increase compared to the same period a year ago.
19  I've got sixty shares in the company, but that's small beer compared with his a hundred thousand.
20  The HedgersEdge packer margin index is a minus $31.60 per head, compared with minus $29.40 previously.
21  These venturesome butterflies are stronger fliers and reproduce more quickly compared to their less mobile relatives.
22  Their method can more than double the yield of certain mushroom species compared with conventional cultivation methods.
23  Our study shows that the pregnancy prevention programme delivered in Western Australia, which involves an infant simulator, does not reduce the risk of pregnancy. In fact, the risk of pregnancy is actually increased compared to girls who didn't take part in the intervention.
24  The technology, ubiquitous in Europe, Canada and elsewhere, makes it harder for thieves to misuse data compared with cards that store data only on magnetic stripes.
25  Ballmer is a brash, exuberant, natural-born salesman — especially compared with the cerebral Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
26  If you compare the two books side by side, it is clear that the author of the second has plagiarized.
27  Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
28  The only person you should compare yourself to, is the person you were yesterday.
29  We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
30  It is interesting to compare their situation and ours.