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Example sentences for "relatively speaking"

  • The pectoral fins are not large relatively speaking.

  • In fact it is impossible to believe that the animal was not alive quite a few years since, relatively speaking.

  • Stimulus by contact or friction induces a retardation which is, relatively speaking, moderate.

  • But the sensibility of the upper half is very feeble and the rate of its contractile movement, relatively speaking, very slow.

  • The heating effect of the red is, relatively speaking, much greater than that of the blue rays.

  • But is the man to be pitied who, absolutely speaking, is getting on well enough; relatively speaking, better off than before; but who is only not better off than other men?

  • If it, relatively speaking, reaches the same point as before, it still is absolutely much greater than before.

  • It is different, of course, when only the higher classes become, relatively speaking, higher yet.

  • I may be obscure, and we may be poor, relatively speaking, all our lives," and he sighed dismally.

  • But you know perfectly well that if we go on just as we are to the end, I shall be thoroughly proud of you, and thoroughly happy--relatively speaking.

  • That is, relatively speaking, and provided I understand correctly what you mean.

  • On this account, in recent times, fine cloths have grown, relatively speaking, much cheaper than coarse ones.

  • Although these three periods may be shown to exist in the history of all highly civilized countries, the nations of antiquity, relatively speaking, never advanced far beyond the second, even in their palmiest days.

  • This is the principal reason why the Orientals possess, relatively speaking, so many precious stones and so much of the precious metals.

  • The rich man possesses, as a rule, less money, relatively speaking, than the poorer man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    captive register; first prize; former place; forming the; four thousand four hundred; fresh stock; give good; guilty knowledge; husband came; joint resolution; making money; mere girl; real pleasure; relatively high; relatively large; relatively late; relatively small; relatively speaking; sent word; thou diest; three families; till when; voted against; when the time came; whose heart; will shew