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Example sentences for "compared with"

  • To my mind, there is nothing to be compared with opals.

  • What is his position, indeed, if one glanced behind the scenes, compared with yours?

  • Really, I do not think that there is one in my little collection to be compared with it.

  • He fancied that his mother would willingly have detained him a little longer, but that she felt how little he could care for her society as compared with that of Hilda.

  • What would my regret be, compared with hers, if in the course of time she realised that she had done wrong in taking my name?

  • What are opinions, conveniences and tastes, compared with realities?

  • If finished, it would be the highest monument of its kind standing on the face of the globe; and yet, after all, what would it be even then as compared with one of the great pyramids?

  • As compared with them we inhabit towns which are close to each other.

  • Our distances, as compared with theirs, are nothing.

  • The profits of a single poem, however excellent, appear to have been very small in the last reign, compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield.

  • Ay, Sir; but let it be compared with Mull.

  • As compared with estimate, it supposes a union of sensibility with judgment, producing a nice and delicate perception.

  • As compared with esteem, it denotes a valuation of things according to their appropriate and distinctive excellence, and not simply their moral worth.

  • By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

  • Socrates I esteemed as an excellent, wise man, who in his life and death might well be compared with Christ.

  • In the mean time, as compared with that to which I had hitherto been accustomed, this new state of affairs was by no means satisfactory.

  • His former countrymen, whom he had left in some displeasure, averred that he was not contented there, nay, could not be so, as a place like Lingen was not to be compared with Frankfort.

  • Its fate may be compared with that of the latest works of Beethoven.

  • Therefore General Johnston is greatly in error, in his estimates on page 357, in stating our loss, as compared with his, at six or ten to one.

  • Compared with others, our loss was a trifle.

  • The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable hereafter, compared with that of the Northern man who aided him by conspiring against his government while protected by it.

  • Secondly, what roles do the other members of our planetary system play as compared with those of the sun and the moon?

  • How small a part, on the other hand, do the representations of odours play in our recollection of past experiences, compared with those of sight.

  • The authority of the Inca might be compared with that of the Pope in the day of his might, when Christendom trembled at the thunders of the Vatican, and the successor of St. Peter set his foot on the necks of princes.

  • This greatly increases the efficiency of the rudder as compared with a plane surface of equal area.

  • Power was limited by the inlet and exhaust passages, which, compared with present-day practice, were very small.

  • In short, he thought it impossible for the princes, his younger brothers, to meet with any thing to be compared with it.

  • It is not to be compared with houses in great cities, much less with the magnificent palaces of emperors.

  • But this day I have learned that it wants three rarities, which would render it so perfect that no country seat in the world could be compared with it.

  • Without seeking to become profound in the matter I will say this: it is but lightly as compared with a man that one need scratch a woman to come on the natural creature.

  • Compared with Lacoste, the Verges were said to be poor.

  • Earlier on, in comparing her with Van der Linden and the Zwanziger woman, I have lessened her caliginosity as compared with that of the Leyden poisoner, giving her credit for one less death than her Dutch sister in crime.

  • None of them impressed me, as compared with this.

  • To me they are, as compared with my conceptions of Jesus, more than inadequate.

  • It has occurred to me, that the superior stability of the English aristocracy, as compared with that of other countries, might be traced, in part, to their relations with the representative branch of the government.

  • The objection to Gothic architecture, as compared with Greek, is, that it is less finished and elegant.

  • This bit of duck will be a palatable morceau as compared with my letter from Haughton; Madame does not write to please, she merely pleases to write.

  • Not through a chilled heart, as compared with a warm one," he answers, quietly.

  • These barometric levellings, though far from satisfactory as compared with trigonometric, are extremely interesting in the absence of the latter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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