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Example sentences for "comparatively speaking"

  • Comparatively speaking, this is but a small stream; nevertheless, from a scenic point of view, it is decidedly worthy of mention.

  • Very little rice, comparatively speaking, is exported, the greater part of that produced being consumed locally.

  • Since the establishment of the large modern biscuit manufactories, biscuits have been produced both cheap and wholesome, in, comparatively speaking, endless variety.

  • In antiquity, its employment was, comparatively speaking, equally universal.

  • In warmer climates it is much milder in its flavour; and such as are grown in Spain and Portugal, are, comparatively speaking, very large, and are often eaten both in a boiled and roasted state.

  • This became therefore a period favourable to the theories of absolute power; not so much shown by means of their positive assertion through the press as by the silence of the press, comparatively speaking, on all political theories whatever.

  • The Greek language, meantime, was thought unnecessary, and few, comparatively speaking, continued to prosecute its study.

  • If this difficulty is encountered in the Enfield, which is, comparatively speaking, a smooth bore, what would be the difficulty in the hexagonal bore with two turns in 39 inches!

  • In the Rocky Mountains, south of the head waters of the Arkansas, comparatively speaking, there are but few small birds and squirrels.

  • The Mexicans fought with a bravery and success which turned the hitherto, comparatively speaking, bloodless victory of the Americans, into a terrible slaughter.

  • On the other hand, the red men were, comparatively speaking, poorly armed, and could not travel together for any length of time in large parties, because they depended for food chiefly upon hunting.

  • As yet scientific research, on questions concerning the Rocky Mountains, is comparatively speaking, dumb.

  • The home of the famous Mocha coffee still produces considerable quantities of that variety, although the output, comparatively speaking, is not large.

  • This is, comparatively speaking, a "dry roast", but not an absolutely dry roast.

  • In Paris, there are many coffee roasters, some quite large, comparatively speaking, one having a capacity of about seven hundred and fifty bags a day.

  • As every golfer knows, the face of the driver is, comparatively speaking, very upright, and firing a ball at a wall built at the same angle as the loft of a driver would certainly not produce on that ball much in the way of back-spin.

  • This is, comparatively speaking, all imbecility and theory.

  • Something might be done with an Irish borough; expense, comparatively speaking inconsiderable, but the politics deeply Orange.

  • Although it was not the season, the great desert had, comparatively speaking, again become peopled.

  • We were glad (as far as nationality was concerned) to hear that those of England are (comparatively speaking) carried on upon a system of benevolence superior to most others.

  • It must be remembered that a journey of one inch, to these minute little creatures, is, comparatively speaking, an immense distance.

  • The primitive organ of audition as it is to be observed in creatures of simple, comparatively speaking, organization is as simple as is the anatomy of the animals in which it is found.

  • I have fortunately been able to note this phase of memory as occurring in several animals, comparatively speaking, low in the scale of intellectual development.

  • Babylon was, comparatively speaking, remote and had troublesome neighbours, who might be expected to prevent her from undertaking distant expeditions.

  • In these several respects the Phoenician religion seems to have leant towards the side of simplicity, the divinities recognised being, comparatively speaking, few, priestly influence not great, and the ceremonial not very elaborate.

  • The definite article, so constantly recurring in Hebrew, is in Phoenician, comparatively speaking, rare.

  • Gates and fences he has, comparatively speaking, none; and, if they be erected for him, they are soon suffered to go to ruin.

  • The losses to the Government and railways which arise from gold payments are, comparatively speaking, a fixed quantity, while the gain to the people from cheap silver, produces consequential benefits far beyond reach of calculation.

  • For where the planter has only to deal, as he has in Ceylon, with the coffee on his land and nothing else, the business, though even then of course requiring considerable skill and intelligence, is comparatively speaking a simple one.

  • The barracks are new and large comparatively speaking, and have been built in an airy situation, in the outskirts of the city.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    comparatively early; comparatively large; comparatively modern; comparatively rare; comparatively recent; comparatively short; comparatively simple; comparatively small; comparatively speaking; excellent character; higher level; higher place; lovest thou; means uncommon; merry laugh; military force; much attached; mucous membrane; other person; physical courage; poor land; reducing them; royal decrees; that this; verily believe; waste away