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How to use the word Proportions in a Sentence?

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You want to undercut the panic and bring it back down to reasonable proportions.

David Carbonell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My portraits have a neutral appearance to them. Depending on the theme, achieving the appropriate balance is always an obstacle. Proportions, like everything else, require meticulous measurement. That is, how masculine, emotional, and expressive they may come across and were meant to be - as if working in a science lab.

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The use of fentanyl, intentionally or unintentionally, and the subsequent overdose deaths associated with its use has reached epic proportions in Colorado.

Commerce City Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Christina was one of the nicest, most genuine, hardest-working, sweetest, most independent people that I've ever known and learning what happened to her was devastating, it couldn't have happened to a nicer person, so it's sickening… It's a tragedy of epic proportions.

Eli Klein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we've learned anything over the past week, it's that CNN is not only a cult, but a cult of maniacal proportions, initially, one could argue the accolades for Zucker were a combination of fear about what he can still do to peopleand true hero worship, but it quickly became evident that it was entirelythe latter.

Curtis Houck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Quite simply, our community members are drowning, and we do not have life preservers to go around, this is a crisis of epic proportions. It is a moral crisis. It is an economic crisis. It is a racial justice crisis. It is a human crisis. Now is the time to act, boldly and urgently.

Kenyatta Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The more we looked at the footprint and toe impression shapes and proportions, the less they resembled tracks made by predatory dinosaurs -- this monster dinosaur was definitely a much friendlier plant-eater.

Hendrik Klein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time, since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We wanted to create a humanist sans serif with generous proportions and a higher than usual stroke contrast( also known as the variation in weight between thick and thin parts of the letter).

John Hudson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Biden's promise that America wants to take radical, transformational and too rapid reductions in carbon and carbon emissions by the end of the decade is a colossal domestic and foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.

Patrick Morrisey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although we see high levels of comfort of LGB people in community leadership roles, notable proportions of people have concerns about the education of children.

Craig Watkins

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the UK, we have come a long way, but this study shows that social progress is not guaranteed, although we see high levels of comfort of LGB people in community leadership roles, notable proportions of people have concerns about the education of children.

Craig Watkins

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It can not be ruled out that Wirecard has become the aggrieved party in a case of fraud of considerable proportions.

Markus Braun

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It would be a mistake of epic proportions.

Jess Morales Rocketto

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'll just tell Washington Gov. Jay Inslee that we saw more infections yesterday than the day before. And we look at the proportions of positives( on tests) and the proportions of positives are more than they were last week, when I look at those general trends, I see signs that the surge is still ahead of us. I certainly hope that I'm wrong.

John Lynch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Hedge funds don't see an economic crisis of epic proportions, they see an opportunity.

Kai Liekefett

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're very, very ready for this. Whether it's going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we're at that very low level.

The President

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our community has been terrorized once again by violent anti-Semitism, from Pittsburgh to Poway, and now to Jersey City on Tuesday, the disease that is anti-Semitism has clearly spread to epidemic proportions.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our community has been terrorized once again by violent anti-Semitism, from Pittsburgh to Poway, and now to Jersey City, the disease that is anti-Semitism has clearly spread to epidemic proportions.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Although these changes are small proportions, these are big drops in terms of public health, the trend is a concerning continuation of what we've seen in the last five years.

Mary Ramsay

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is quite shocking to see the increasing number of people which are at risk of poverty due to health spending, even in high-income countries ... there has been growth in the share and in the number of people who spend large proportions of their household budgets on health.

Francesca Colombo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Even in high-income countries ... there has been growth in the share and in the number of people who spend large proportions of their household budgets on health.

Francesca Colombo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the course of investigating that, I found out this incredible story about Joe Biden, that Joe Biden bribed the President of the Ukraine in order to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Joe Biden son, that is an astounding scandal of major proportions, which all of you have covered up for five or six months.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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