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Example Sentences for "comparisons "


You shouldn't make comparisons between your sisters, they each have their own qualities.

It may likewise alter the colour by further dissolving the tinging substance into smaller and smaller particles, and so diluting the colour; or by uniting several particles together as in precipitations, and so deepning it, and some such other ways, which many experiments and comparisons of differing trials together, might easily inform one of.

This organization also makes direct measurements of the purity of the air, and has acquired a unique body of observations that can be used to test the success of efforts made to abate the smoke nuisance, besides providing interesting comparisons between the incidence of respiratory diseases and the amount of solid matter in the air.

My knowledge of physics is too rudimentary to allow me to draw precise comparisons between this force and electricity.

The work being done at these volcano observatories provides important comparisons and contrasts between the behavior of the generally non-explosive Hawaiian shield volcanoes and that of the generally explosive composite volcanoes of the Cascade and Alaskan Peninsula-Aleutian chains.

A sensitive man does not like to hear invidious comparisons between his carriages, horses, and liveries, and those of his predecessor in office.

They drew endless comparisons and similes; the dug-out rippled with laughter and chucklings over their appearance, their uncouth antics and-primest jest of all-the numbers their guns had cut down, the attempts of the Germans to bolt from them, the speed and certainty with which a gust of their machine-gun fire had caught a hustling mob of fugitives, hailed through them, tumbled them in kicking, slaughtered heaps.

We have therefore to compare quantitatively each pleasure as it occurs, or as recalled in imagination, with other imagined pleasures: and the question is, how far such comparisons can be regarded as trustworthy.

I do not conclude that we should reject it altogether: I am conscious that, in spite of all the difficulties that I have urged, I continue to make comparisons between pleasures and pains with practical reliance on their results.

But I conclude that it would be at least highly desirable, with a view to the systematic direction of conduct, to control and supplement the results of such comparisons by the assistance of some other method: if we can find any on which we see reason to rely.

Fundamentally, it is a descriptive science, and when the general character of the individual living creatures has been determined, it proceeds to draw comparisons between them, distinguishing genus and species, and thus working toward a classification.

Some eloquent comparisons might be drawn from the social life of to-day.

I will not sit here, and hear such comparisons made.

Nita Lowey would have been the best candidate, actually, but at this point she could never escape the comparisons and the celebrity gap.

I have heard all the comparisons to the tulip mania of Holland and the stock speculation of the 1920s, and this current craze is nothing new.

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