proportion

Definition:
1. Give pleasant proportions to.
2. Adjust in size relative to other things.
3. The quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.
4. Magnitude or extent.
5. Balance among the parts of something.

Use 'proportion' in a sentence:

• 1. The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.
• 2. The proportion of men to women in the college has changed dramatically over the years.
• 3. We must not lose our sense of proportion.
• 4. A person's wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
• 5. They receive a proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services.
• 6. A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain.
• 7. Scott of the Antarctic was a national hero of mythic proportions.
• 8. The proportion of the population who are over retirement age has grown tremendously in the past few years.
• 9. Although a small proportion of the total population, this perhaps had a massive local impact when a large proportion of the young men were removed from an area.
• 10. The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.
• 11. The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.
• 12. The proportion of empty space in a rock is known as its porosity.
• 13. Were the government to use a multiplier of five instead of three, the proportion of Americans below the poverty line would rise to more than 24 percent.
• 14. The proportion of women in middle management has risen to 40%.
• 15. A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.
• 16. Children tend to have relatively larger heads than adults in proportion to the rest of their body.
• 17. The proportion of small cars on America's roads is increasing.
• 18. We've got to keep this in proportion.
• 19. A large proportion of the nation's households are hooked up to the Internet.
• 20. In Japan the proportion is 35%.
• 21. The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%.
• 22. The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.
• 23. You haven't drawn the figures in the foreground in proportion.
• 24. Vaccine supplies started to run dry as the flu outbreak reached epidemic proportions.
• 25. A proportion of the land is used for agriculture.
• 26. A high proportion of candidates get low or unclassified grades.
• 27. To my eye, the windows seem out of proportion.
• 28. Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
• 29. The proportion of Americans living on welfare rose.
• 30. The head is out of proportion with the body.
• 31. The basic ingredients are limestone and clay in the proportion 2:1.
• 32. The room is very long in proportion to its width.
• 33. To my eye , the windows seem out of proportion.
• 34. The expulsion of thousands of people represents a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.
• 35. A large proportion of old people live alone.
• 36. The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.
• 37. The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups.
• 38. Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.
• 39. A high proportion of five-year-olds have teeth in poor condition.
• 40. They earn salaries out of all proportion to their ability.
• 41. The media have blown the incident up out of all proportion.
• 42. The proportion of regular smokers increases with age.
• 43. We must keep a sense of proportion about all this.
• 44. Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty.