How to Use comparative in a Sentence

comparative

adjective

• She did a comparative study of classical and modern art.
• I'm taking a class in comparative anatomy.
• And desktop users have to figure out the comparative virtues of the iMac and the Mac Mini.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• The comparative rates for China and the United States were 68% and 61%.
  — Carlotta Dotto, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• That is true, but at the end of the day this is a comparative exercise.
  — Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The comparative calm on the crime front has done nothing to impair sales.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• Then the issue would come down to their comparative margins against the debutantes.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• This time around the disease is far worse than even the comparative numbers reflect.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
• And state schools, once a comparative bargain, have increased their rates as well.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
• Urías matched Greene pitch for pitch — albeit at a comparative crawl — through five innings.
  — Steve Hensonassistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• But one surprise has been the comparative lack of disquiet about standing so long in line.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• Of course, since that is an overall measure, there will be pockets of comparative strength and weakness.
  — John Walkup, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• When basketball fans gather to discuss the Greatest of All Time, the debates tend to be comparative.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Or the in-joke nod to Beetlejuice, a comparative reference which does this movie zero favors.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Amidst the Barbie whirlwind, which has been filled with endless amounts of pink, the LA premiere stood out for its comparative variety.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 10 July 2023
• However, comparative to the rest of the market, Dell has the furthest to go toward recovery.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
• The comparative ease of this breakup is unique in a family that can make wearing a dress into an epic saga, but clearly Jenner’s more focused on her kid (pony).
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2022
• With the price of regular unleaded gasoline still in the $4-a-gallon range, the comparative price of premium is kind of a bargain at many stations.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2022
• Humans are well versed in comparative thinking and have the ability to scale their own life satisfaction against that of their neighbors.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• Back at home, Gruen scrambled to find a CD drive to give him access to the data, which also provided no comparative details.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 30 June 2023
• Her clubs lost their glamour and edge in the ’80s, with competition from Studio 54 and a comparative lack of druggy atmosphere.
  — Vulture, 1 May 2022
• John Shields learned that his Landon Road home continues to be put up as a comparative example on size at over 6,000 square feet, counting his first and second floor.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• Working through the science of comparative anatomy, Buckland was sure that Megalosaurus was a giant reptile.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Many note that this points to the comparative advantage low-tax places have in attracting businesses and families.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
• Sanctions take a comparative eon in the scheme of war or a humanitarian crisis.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• This kind of comparative parenting really got going when my kids were little, in the early 2000s.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Boas was also a proponent of what was then a revolutionary idea that different cultures should be looked at in their own right and not on some kind of comparative scale.
  — Deepti Hajela, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
• What changed for the industry is that audiences stopped showing up with comparative frequency to non-tentpole/non-event movies.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• The Chinese economy grew 6.3% from a year earlier in the second quarter of the year, quickening from the pace set in the first quarter thanks to a low base from the comparative period when the economy was hit by Covid-19 and lockdowns.
  — WSJ, 17 July 2023
• City leaders hope the exchange, a comparative trickle in a stream of funds flowing through government home and infrastructure projects, will help ease the home affordability crisis squeezing many of the city’s residents.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024