Sentence examples for grew in proportion from inspiring English sources

Simon, whose love for Sox grew in proportion to his decline and whose attentiveness to him was surprising and touching, couldn't bring himself to enter the vet's practice.

The sense that the great war was a futile killing ground grew in proportion to the idea that the second world war was a "good war", fought to free the world from Hitlerism.

She tells, too, of how Amis's confidence grew in proportion with his literary fame: "The feelings of profound unattractiveness from which he claims to have suffered a couple of years before we met — feelings of short-arsed, physical inadequacy which he novelises time and again — had given way to Byronic magnetism".

The local hospital could not cope with Bouazizi's terrible burns, so he was taken first to Sfax, more than 70 miles away, and then, as the government's interest in his case grew in proportion to the demonstrations that took up his name, to a hospital in Tunis.

Stuart Broad and James Anderson were treated disdainfully, and number nine Bruce Martin also joined in the fun as the crowd's enjoyment grew in proportion to England's obvious frustration.

My respect and admiration for leaders grew in proportion to the challenges I faced.

But the pardon office has not grown in proportion to the workload.

Mr. Simmons said complaints from travelers had grown in proportion with the increase in security measures.

The level of anxiety prevalent in sixth-grade lunchrooms appeared almost to grow in proportion to a school's distance from the ivory towers of the Northeast.

I shared it with Derek, my unemployed friend whose cynicism seems to grow in proportion to the difficulties he is having finding a new job.

As Jessie and Chloe continue their clandestine affair, sneaking off to motels for afternoon trysts, Jessie's guilt grows in proportion to her sexual gratification.