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Example sentences for "relatively"

Lexicographically close words:
relatione; relations; relationship; relationships; relative; relativement; relatives; relativism; relativity; relativos
  1. That it is everywhere contracted, but more especially towards the sides so that it looks narrower, relatively longer, more drawn together.

  2. Ferrara is spread over a large area relatively to its population; it has broad streets and very few slums.

  3. So it is evident that the distribution of the term under discussion is to be taken, not absolutely, but relatively to something else.

  4. The third class in our experience is relatively of less importance, as it consists chiefly of the popular "farm-papers.

  5. There is perhaps no other science in which the unofficial literature is so relatively unimportant.

  6. And right down there a block at the foot of the hill is Panama City--the relatively new Panama.

  7. Relatively so, because they are wholly unequal to the whites among whom they live, in the war of the wits and free competition, which universal liberty begets, and political economy encourages.

  8. In old countries the white laborers are relatively weak, because all property is closely appropriated, and the capitalist class possess the means of unlimited oppression.

  9. The blacks in America are both positively and relatively weak.

  10. Not that it was difficult to adjust his behavior--no, that was relatively easy.

  11. The "healthy" samples were relatively clear, except for minute protein matter.

  12. Although the symptoms, as reported by hundreds of clinics, were relatively mild, the effect on the nation's economy was growing serious.

  13. But it also happens that, in the very period when an increase in the demand for wool is usually alleged as the cause of the enclosures, the price of wool fell relatively to that of grain.

  14. They furnish, therefore, the exact information needed in connection with the theory that a rise in the price of wool relatively to that of wheat was the cause of the enclosure movement in England.

  15. The income of the parish priest in a small mountain village could not have been equal to the relatively great costs of the projects that had been completed.

  16. By the end of the 19th century it began to pass from use, as mills became capable of producing larger sections with properties relatively favorable to column use and more adaptable to connection with other members.

  17. As already mentioned, the few available rolled-iron shapes were of relatively small area and quite unsuitable for use as columns unless combined and built up in complex fabrications.

  18. In this transitional composite structure cast iron was used only in the relatively short sections of the upper chord.

  19. If stone arches were used in locations where the grade of the line was a relatively short distance above the surface of the stream to be crossed, a number of short arches would have been necessary to avoid a very flat single arch.

  20. The increasing refinements demanded in scientific instruments and in machine tools themselves after they had reached a relatively stable form dictated that attention be dedicated to improved accuracy of the threaded components.

  21. Poggendorf, as a relatively junior student, had no such easy access to publicity, but he had a staunch admirer in one of his professors, Paul Erman at the University of Berlin.

  22. The multiple chapter ring, with its many inscriptions, is engraved and silvered in a relatively crude manner, presumably by Bertolla himself.

  23. On the other hand, the foreign beers are relatively very rich in solids, and the extractives: alcohol ratio is high.

  24. The Sirocco blowing fan, of Messrs Davidson of Belfast, has a larger number of blades, which are relatively narrow as measured radially, but wide axially.

  25. In designing such spaces and in peopling them with figures of relatively small scale, we see him eagerly and continually putting to the test the principles of the new science of perspective.

  26. It is to be noted that children, who are particularly susceptible to the influence of certain of the other potent alkaloids, such as morphine and strychnine, will take relatively large doses of atropine without ill-effect.

  27. Helical or screw blowers, often called "air propellers," are used where relatively large volumes of air have to be moved against hardly any perceptible difference in pressure, chiefly for purposes of ventilation and drying.

  28. The Stouts, as a rule, are characterized by a high gravity, and contain relatively more solids (as compared with alcohol) than do the heavy beers of light colour.

  29. It will be noticed that the Mild Ales are of medium original gravity[8] and alcoholic strength, but contain a relatively large proportion of solid matter.

  30. A drawing placed on the ground glass can be so illuminated as to make its lines conspicuous and readily traceable even through relatively thick paper.

  31. As photolithography is a direct process and is relatively cheap it is the one most used for reproducing large maps and other line drawings that have been carefully prepared.

  32. Down to an epoch relatively late it was a privilege reserved to priests and princes.

  33. It is presumably at this period that traditions, orally transmitted from a past relatively remote, were first put in writing.

  34. That monotheism, in appearance relatively modern, actually was archaic.

  35. We should have abandoned to him the whole of the ocean except a relatively minute strip of coast-waters.

  36. He will get no glory, even in these days of self-advertisement, from the conquest of such relatively weak antagonists; and the plunder will not suffice to repay him for the damage received in effecting it.

  37. Viewed from the British ships, placed as they were relatively to it, the enemy's fleet must have appeared as a long single line-ahead, perhaps not very exactly formed.

  38. They are, as a rule, relatively near to the territory of the state whose navy has to keep the lines open, that is to say, prevent their being persistently beset by an enemy.

  39. If communications are open for the passage of vessels of the friendly mercantile marine, it follows that the relatively much smaller number of supply-vessels can traverse the line.

  40. The majority of naturalists probably agree with Darwin in believing that the explanation is real, but relatively unimportant.

  41. The price is relatively higher than the average for the product of the same farms fifty years earlier.

  42. The relatively thick and heavy garments of an aviator were intolerable under the savage rays of the sun, and one by one they had to be discarded.

  43. The field of battle was relatively calm, a few shells fell, fired by the enemy in retreat, and our troops were advancing on all sides.

  44. Other easy, relatively easy, places to hold are the dead spaces of gullies and ravines.

  45. You confound the relatively inconceivable with the absolutely impossible: this story is relatively inconceivable to you, and therefore you say it is absolutely impossible.

  46. The moon is relatively a large body, comparable in that respect with the earth, while the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, for instance, are relatively small.

  47. Only man in a relatively advanced stage of agriculture grows mushrooms for himself.

  48. These are infinitely more dangerous than the relatively clumsy, heavy-footed, grazing animal.

  49. However hard we study, and however much we observe and reflect upon the working of this great world of Nature, we really cannot expect to know more relatively than that little mouse.

  50. Your brother travels relatively frequently, does he not?

  51. Yes, we did, for a relatively short time, because we couldn't make up our minds whether we should get married or not.

  52. All of them have been relatively recently in Soviet Russia--while my wife has never been in Soviet Russia in her life, and I was 5 or 6 when I left it.

  53. Financial and economic disturbances had been relatively slight, and every year had seen a greater business expansion than the last.

  54. It was relatively easy to exclude most of the negroes by means of qualifications such as these, but every convention was embarrassed by the fact that each qualification excluded, as well, some of the white voters.

  55. Barrels were relatively cheap to buy, but were costly to handle.

  56. It was relatively easy to attack the formal organization of the trust, but in spite of such attacks concentration continued to produce ever greater combinations, as though it were fulfilling some fundamental economic law.

  57. The effect of this is always to carry up the price of that, for which the buyers are many and the sellers relatively few.

  58. And the trait puts honor on human nature, because it implies a relatively high estimate of the worth of life in the mind of the patient, and also a relatively high confidence in a certain class of one's fellow-men.

  59. It is this: Relatively low taxes so adjusted on comparatively few things as not to disturb natural prices.

  60. It is perfectly evident on every hand, that there is something in the nature and progress of things, that makes for wages as contrasted with profits: wages hold on and relatively enlarge, profits decline or go out altogether.

  61. Tools are invented and employed for no other reason than this, that, by means of their help, the human efforts are lessened relatively to the given satisfactions.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relatively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appreciably; comparatively; fairly; incompletely; merely; mildly; moderately; modestly; only; part; partially; partly; proportionately; purely; quite; relatively; simply; somewhat; tolerably; visibly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    relatively high; relatively large; relatively late; relatively small; relatively speaking