Sentence examples for relative sense from inspiring English sources

The Orbital is thin only in a relative sense.

There was good news — in a relative sense — on Tuesday.

It is "free" only in a relative sense.

If all of their peers were overweight then in a relative sense they were fine.

The headlines screaming "Clinton's Support Erodes" are true, but only in a relative sense.

And, most important, the W.N.B.A., in a relative sense, is in its infancy.

(I use "moderate" in a relative sense. All of the G.O.P. candidates, Bush included, are solidly on the right).

So related deaths were quite rare in a relative sense, about one death in 20,000 arrests.

Mrs. Rockefeller, who did not marry again, learned early to economize, at least in the relative sense of the term.

Time is included in cladograms only in a relative sense, in the internested structure of the cladogram itself.

In some philosophical atomistic theories, the immutability of the atoms has been understood in a highly relative sense.