How to Use by/in comparison in a Sentence

by/in comparison

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• Thick hair, by comparison, can struggle to absorb moisture evenly, leading to dry ends.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2024
• Tuesday night was a clunker by comparison, a 6-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• Maybe the chunks of white are too big, or the yolk pieces are too smooshed in comparison.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2024
• The Call Me by Your Name peach scene is tame by comparison.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• Still, Clark's base pay pales in comparison to her counterparts in the NBA.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2024
• In terms of looks, the Skylight is a bit unassuming in comparison to the Aura frames.
  — Valerie Walsh, wsj.com, 20 Nov. 2023
• All 50 states pale in comparison to their largest cities’ metro areas.
  — Zachary Fleming, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• The latest storm passing through the region this week pales in comparison.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• So many novels are promoted by comparison yet very few can live up to the hype.
  — Morgan Talty, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• Some is thought to have escaped out into space, as the amount of water now frozen on Mars’ surface pales in comparison to what was once there.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• Most of the other things that would be at all similar are going to pale by comparison.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Younger adults, by comparison, are more likely to rent.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• The memorial, which sits at a high point of downtown Montgomery, towers over the rest of the city, making the state capitol look like a toy in comparison.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Hit the Mute Button The risk of being caught on camera makes the rest of the answers to Jugo's survey look less egregious by comparison.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 15 June 2023
• The tax bill, however, probably would pale in comparison to the amount of debt discharged.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Learn to do it well and other strength and athletic movements will feel easy by comparison.
  — Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• There are celebrities, and then there is Swift, a modern day King Midas who makes other high-wattage stars look small by comparison.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
• While the Caribbean is no secret, how many people, in comparison, head to Roatán Island off the coast of Honduras?
  — Jake Emen, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• The threats and comments online are nothing in comparison to the real-life violence Judd has faced.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• But that's nothing in comparison to the flurry of activity this port once was.
  — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024
• The devices of moviemaking are so much better equipped to awaken nightmares that theater’s efforts to make the skin crawl seem hokey by comparison.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• The problem was that Biden had such a terrible debate that Trump looked like Cicero by comparison.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• The best part: Each cup size only took two minutes from start to finish to brew, which was pretty fast in comparison to bigger models like the K155 and the K-Duo, which took a little more time.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• What’s happening now seems sort of quaint in comparison.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Melania’s side hustles Which brings us to Melania Trump, whose scandal is mild in comparison.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
• Though the episode includes plenty of sweet family moments for the Waldorf and Archibalds, the drama served is pretty dry in comparison to other episodes.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• Yet numbers and scenes beamed around the world on TV and social media are nothing in comparison to the reality, Al-Shalwi warned.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Aid was slow to come to Peshtigo, thanks in part to its provincial anonymity in comparison to the much smaller but more publicized fire that happened in Chicago the same night.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Democrats, by comparison, want a 28% corporate tax rate in order to fund programs for the middle class and deficit reduction.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 15 July 2024
• For all of the many, many allegations made against him on all sorts of subjects during his time on the public stage, everything else feels small by comparison.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024