Sentence examples for down that comparison from inspiring English sources

Baszucki understandably isn't playing down that comparison.

Recent studies have shown that comparisons are the main cause of Facebook depression; the study showed that down-comparison (comparing with inferiors) was just as likely to cause depression as up-comparison (comparing with people better than oneself).

Replying to G4TV's question about writing action, Staten replied that he felt that writing "involves slowing things down", in comparison to a game of Halo.

Another feature that shows the sedentary behavior in HD patients was the fact that they stayed 27.4% of the observation period lying down in comparison to 6.8% in control individuals.

Though its ratings were down in comparison to previous years, NBC's Olympics coverage brought the network a rare Sunday victory in total viewers and households.

CBS placed second in Nielsen's estimates, but its overall schedule was down in comparison with last year, when "Everybody Loves Raymond" anchored the 9 p.m. hour.

Though ratings continue to be down in comparison with those for previous games, Monday's Olympics broadcast resulted in one of its better performances so far.

As for all the attention that has come his way since going viral, Talton "doesn't mind it," though his real-life bravado is toned down in comparison to his between-innings persona.

Instead, downloads actually went down in comparison with our other app launches.

The suffix counts in the large database is scaled down for comparison purposes.

Interestingly, the growth of paid search seems to be slowing down by comparison to all of the above (but, of course, not in comparison to traditional media; more on that below).