Sentence examples for comparison to something from inspiring English sources

When you are thrown into a new task, it's helpful to search for a comparison to something you've done before.

But to make a comparison to something that went on for hours and hours and for four days is a totally, you know, exaggerated reaction".

Thus, 'taller' (maius) counts as a relative term because when we assert of something that it is taller that is, when we predicate the term 'taller' of it we necessarily do so in comparison to something else.

Medievals refer to the predicates in question as 'relative terms' (ad aliquid or relativa),[9] and understand them, roughly speaking, as those terms whose true predication requires a comparison to something other than the subject of which they are predicated.

The majority of this year's attacks also involved just four victims injured or killed, which seems tiny in comparison to something like Orlando.

On being witty, however, you're going to reflect their words in a different way—strike a comparison to something else, ideally something that you and your conversation partner are both familiar with.

It is no comparison "to own something that is 65 million years old versus to own an art sculpture that was made a hundred years ago," he said.

Why was the interesting comparison to the cockroach something you felt you needed to ask him?

Why was the interesting comparison to the cockroach something you felt you needed to ask him? .

Newman: It's such a jarring comparison to look at something like the pre-rendered Old Warrior video, and then look at the in-game machinima approach to cut scenes.

I was particularly taken by the way he uses such dark, menacing comparisons to describe something so mesmerising and uplifting.