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Example sentences for "when compared"

  • The value of a favour is not measured when sentiments of kindness are perceived; and the term misfortune has but a feeble meaning, when compared to that of insult and wrong.

  • Those bands are even of a feeble texture, when compared to the resolute ardour with which a man adheres to his friend, or to his tribe, after they have for some time run the career of fortune together.

  • The tertiary strata, when compared to the older rocks, are marked by the predominance of Exogens, which now constitute three-fourths of the living plants of the globe.

  • The difference of stature in some races of dogs, when compared to others, is as one to five in linear dimensions, making a difference of a hundred-fold in volume.

  • The discharge, however, at the Bosphorus is so small, when compared to the volume of water carried in by rivers, as to imply a great amount of evaporation in the Black Sea.

  • But the catastrophes in the White Mountains are insignificant, when compared to those which are occasioned by earthquakes, when the boundary hills, for miles in length, are thrown down into the hollow of a valley.

  • What are the honours and riches of this world, when compared to the glories of a crown of life?

  • The introduction of infinite small doses, when compared, at least, with the quantities formerly prescribed, is gradually creeping in.

  • When compared to the immensity of time, life is but an idle span.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when compared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    butter size; great spiritual; left alive; magnetic iron; when applied; when death; when dying; when either; when finished; when fresh; when going; when heated; when left; when made; when melted; when planted; when quite; when soft; when something; when that; when the; when the door opened; when turned; when used; when very; whenever they