Sentence examples for beggars comparison from inspiring English sources
The speeches of the condemned, biographies of criminals, and trial literature, were popular genres during the late 17th and early 18th centuries; written for a mass audience and a precursor to the modern novel, they were "produced on a scale which beggars comparison with any period before or since".
The daily journalist has to go out, get the story, and write it in one day, a feat that leaves me breathless and beggars all comparison with the time involved in my projects — four months in the New York City Greenmarkets, three weeks with a flying game warden, two weeks with a Nevada brand inspector, months at a time across three years of trips to Alaska.
Individual consumer waste is so pathetically insignificant in comparison it beggars belief that this is a sub-headline article.
Even for the most hardened cynics, such comparisons beggar belief.
Grameen, by comparison, has made loans to 100,000 beggars, with a 1% default rate: "We say, 'You have to pay us back.
The best-performing eurozone members, such as Germany, look good, but only in comparison; and their growth model is partly based on beggar-thy-neighbour policies, whereby success comes at the expense of erstwhile "partners".
In a decision that almost beggars belief, and which makes the Post and the Daily News look almost "appropriate" by comparison, a local reality show has made the decision to broadcast an episode featuring Steenkamp.
Still, Vermeer beggars analysis.
It beggars the imagination".
