in proportion

1. see out of proportion.

Example Sentences

The price of goods shipped from these countries will likely rise in proportion with the tariffs, leading to significant jumps in sticker prices.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's around three euros for a normal person, if you put in proportion to Bezos's wealth," Lorenzo from Extinction Rebellion said.

From BBC

In the rare encounters he has with other humans, he enjoys quoting favorite passages from it, such as: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

From Los Angeles Times

He also has a blue check mark, which once signified authenticity on Twitter but now signifies that an X account pays a few bucks a month and is eligible to receive revenue from Elon Musk in proportion to how many people see its posts.

From Slate

Navarro was the author of the infamous equation that set so-called reciprocal tariff rates in proportion to the size of a country's trade surplus with the US, calling it "the sum of all cheating".

From BBC

Related Words

• commensurate 
• comparable 
• corresponding 
• equitable 
• proportional 
• reciprocal