COMPARE in a Sentence
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273 example sentences for COMPARE, such as:
1. This one cannot compare with that one.
2. Let any one who doubts this, compare the two.
3. The loveliness of the scene was beyond compare.
4. She would not calculate, she would not compare.
5. It is interesting to compare their situation and ours.
2. Let any one who doubts this, compare the two.
3. The loveliness of the scene was beyond compare.
4. She would not calculate, she would not compare.
5. It is interesting to compare their situation and ours.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of COMPARE
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compare
v. to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb
v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1 Just compare me with those rag-tags over there and you'll appreciate me more.
2 I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
3 Those buckskin legs and calves of legs I've seen in shop windows wouldn't compare at all.
4 I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.
5 The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
6 I could not enough admire the change he had wrought in the Golden Cross; or compare the dull forlorn state I had held yesterday, with this morning's comfort and this morning's entertainment.
7 She wanted to compare them, and began taking them out of the album.
8 At the moment when she had moved away to the big clock to compare it with her watch, someone drove up.
9 All of this together made a disagreeable impression on Katavasov, and when the volunteers got out at a station for a drink, Katavasov would have liked to compare his unfavorable impression in conversation with someone.
10 There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.
11 She would not calculate, she would not compare.
12 Let any one who doubts this, compare the two.
13 She could only compare Mr Elliot to Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it.
14 Don't compare me with my sister, please,' interposed Katya hurriedly; 'that's too much to my disadvantage.
15 He turned to look at Kutuzov and his suite, to compare his impressions with those of others.
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 If you compare the two books side by side, it is clear that the author of the second has plagiarized.
2 Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
3 The only person you should compare yourself to, is the person you were yesterday.
4 We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
5 It is interesting to compare their situation and ours.
6 If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are.
7 You can't compare them — there is a fundamental difference in kind.
8 This one cannot compare with that one.
9 Few things compare with the joy of cycling on a bright, sunny spring morning.
10 Instant coffee just doesn't compare with freshly ground coffee.
11 The quality of English wines can now compare with wines from Germany.
12 The loveliness of the scene was beyond compare.
13 He programmed his computer to compare all the possible combinations.
14 Their prices compare favourably with those of their competitors.
15 If you compare her work with his/If you compare their work, you'll find hers is much better.