RELATIVE in a Sentence

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1. Success is a relative term.
2. It's a relative quality, after all.
3. A good friend is my nearest relation.
4. Its brain is small in relation to its body.
5. Its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
relative
 n.  an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another
 a.  considered in relation or in proportion to something else
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was hardly a family in Georgia who could not own to their sorrow at least one male member or relative who gambled, losing money, houses, land and slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Their young brother Dallas was their darling and the only relative the maiden ladies had in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Except for Aunt Pittypat and Uncle Henry and you, she hasn't a close relative in the world, except the Burrs in Macon and they're third cousins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  His sister, his only relative, had moved to Texas with her husband years ago and he was alone in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  No friend or relative stood up with them at their marriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  It's a relative quality, after all.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  Another aspect of the same idea had presented itself to her, and she felt that it was beneath her dignity to have her nerves racked by a dependent relative who wore her old clothes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
8  As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near relative was a vanilla-flavored sister married to an optician in St. Paul.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The true Main Streetite defines a relative as a person to whose house you go uninvited, to stay as long as you like.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Mrs. Bogart showed herself perfectly willing to be an associate relative.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
13  Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of Mrs. Shimerda.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
14  This change had brought them nigher to each other, however, while it altered their relative positions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
15  At all events, a short, squab female relative who was present at his birth exclaimed as she lifted up the baby: "He is altogether different from what I had expected him to be."
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Success is a relative term.
17  In its ideal form, the alloy is a crystal with each element occupying specific crystal locations relative to one another.
18  Where once relative health and relative safety were sufficient, we demand absolute health and utter safety against the remotest contingency.
19  In case the donor of kidney is a non relative, we have to investigate if there is any organ trafficking.
20  Cities in the euro zone have become more expensive relative to other places since the introduction of euro notes and coins in January last year.
21  Despite his young age and relative inexperience, he was soon beating out the Hollywood elite for major roles in blockbuster films.
22  Its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun.
23  The reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions.
24  As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the Sun, and not the center; this slightly increases the duration of "day" relative to "night."
25  We were interested in this research because there was a relative lack of data about diet drinks and cardiovascular outcomes and mortality.
26  The energy an animal uses is in direct relation to speed and body mass.
27  Its brain is small in relation to its body.
28  A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.
29  She used the map to discover where she was in relation to her surroundings.
30  A good friend is my nearest relation.