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Example sentences for "proportionable"

Lexicographically close words:
proponed; proponent; proponents; proporcion; proportion; proportionably; proportional; proportionality; proportionally; proportionals
  1. Or, Infuse in ten or twenty pints of Juice of Damask Roses, expressed in the manner above described, a proportionable quantity of Damask Rose Leaves gathered with the usual precautions.

  2. When, as we may suppose, they have run a length proportionable to the width, they compose a bath which may indeed be called Great, 96ft.

  3. When, as we may suppose, they have run a length proportionable to their width, they compose a bath which may indeed be called great, 96ft.

  4. Whoever can discover the aforesaid goods, so that they may be had again, shall have fifty guineas for the whole, or proportionable for any part.

  5. If dinner has been thus postponed, or (if you please) kept back from time to time, you may be sure that it has been in compliance with the other business of the day, and that supper has still observed a proportionable distance.

  6. They were in imitation of the State Lotteries, with prizes of money proportionable to the value of the tickets, and drawn in like manner.

  7. Many are apt to think, that God knows and sees no more than they themselves do; which is the effect of egregious blindness and ignorance, and will merit a proportionable punishment.

  8. We are not to imagine, as some have done, that the church possessed lands in this proportion, but only that they and their vassals enjoyed such a proportionable part of the landed property.

  9. Hence Lanfranc's zeal in promoting the interests of the papacy, by which he himself augmented his own authority, was indefatigable, and met with proportionable success.

  10. By slow and gradual rises, they seldom suffer; the goods being sold at proportionable prices.

  11. The dispute between the two countries has already cost England many millions sterling, which it has lost in its commerce, and America has in this respect been a proportionable gainer.

  12. The representation of the assembly to the proprietaries, requesting them to bear a proportionable part of Indian expences.

  13. And we accordingly find that each of these forms of government, by varying the utility of those customs, has commonly a proportionable effect on the sentiments of mankind.

  14. This Satisfaction, which flows from the Merits of Jesus Christ, is full and intire, and proportionable to the Enormity of all the Sins of Mankind.

  15. After each successful battle or expedition, the spoils were accumulated in one common mass; every warrior received his proportionable share; and the royal prerogative submitted to the equal regulations of military law.

  16. But this distempered strength of France will be the cause of proportionable weakness on its recovery.

  17. Whether, as a national bank would increase our industry, and that our wealth, England may not be a proportionable gainer; and whether we should not consider the gains of our mother-country as some accession to our own?

  18. And whether the political body, any in the fingers and toes more than the natural, can thrive without a proportionable circulation through the minutest and most inconsiderable parts thereof?

  19. It is hard to entertain him with a proportionable gift.

  20. This, this is the man of God, so sanctified a thunderbolt, that Burroughs (in a proportionable blasphemy to his Lord of Hosts) would style him the archangel giving battle to the devil.

  21. The armour of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, seven feet high, and the sword and lance of proportionable size, were viewed as objects of wonder.

  22. Each possibility, of which the probability is composed, operates separately upon the imagination; and it is the larger collection of possibilities, which at last prevails, and that with a force proportionable to its superiority.

  23. In order, therefore, to impose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a peculiar degree of shame to their infidelity, above what arises merely from its injustice, and must bestow proportionable praises on their chastity.

  24. The absence or presence of a part of the cause is attended with that of a proportionable part of the effect.

  25. The vivacity of the idea is always proportionable to the degrees of the impulse or tendency to the transition; and belief is the same with the vivacity of the idea, according to the precedent doctrine.

  26. The absence or presence of one part of the cause is here supposed to be always attended with the absence or presence of a proportionable part of the effect.

  27. If my reasoning be just, they must have a proportionable effect on the will and passions.

  28. Person knows not the Meanness of my Birth, at least, he cannot think it any Way proportionable or suitable to his.

  29. Sir Lucius) your Obligation is so great, that I want Sense to receive it as I ought; much more Words to return you any proportionable Acknowledgment of it.

  30. Motion is proportionable to space described in given time.

  31. Velocity not proportionable to space describ'd in given time.

  32. A proportionable tax on houses the best source of revenue, 355.

  33. The constancy and steadiness of the effect supposes a proportionable constancy and steadiness in the cause.

  34. The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.

  35. If direct taxes upon the wages of labour have not always occasioned a proportionable rise in those wages, it is because they have generally occasioned a considerable fall in the demand of labour.

  36. The reduction in the money price of labour would necessarily be attended with a proportionable one in that of all home manufactures, which would thereby gain some advantage in all foreign markets.

  37. Such a tax must, therefore, occasion a rise in the wages of labour, proportionable to this rise of price.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proportionable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.