How to Use relative to in a Sentence

relative to

preposition

• The encounter occurred on the far side of the sun, relative to Earth.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
• The debt relative to the size of the economy will soon hit an all-time high.
  — Chris Edwards, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• Keep in mind, these dates are relative to the average date of the last killing freeze.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• The researchers then plotted these relative to the black hole and its jets.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• The euro is down about 10% relative to the U.S. dollar over the past two years and about 20% lower than long-term trends.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Here, the influx of profits drove up the value of the krone relative to the euro.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Dusk and dawn are the times relative to the sun’s daytime rotation.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
• Alaska Alaska is the state with the latest poll closures relative to the rest of the country.
  — Liam Quinn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
• And what is the performance of this asset relative to the benchmark.
  — Byjustin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 24 July 2023
• And what is the substance with the least social stigma relative to using it?
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• In 2021, the redder a county was, the more its turnout increased relative to four years prior.
  — Tia Yang, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Due to his play relative to his age, Chourio shot up prospect rankings while with the Mudcats.
  — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• When does the Wasteland take place relative to Furiosa?
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 May 2024
• Each card has a point value and a pictogram that tells you which tiles on the board the card affects relative to its position.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
• His 6-9 wingspan, however, is one of the longest relative to height in this year’s draft class.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Women tend to have stronger quadriceps relative to their hamstrings, and to land more flat-footed and with stiffer knees.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• That’s a bargain relative to the costs of inaction, but much of it will be borne by governments.
  — Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• The state’s median income declined relative to the US level over the past five decades.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• What the radar pulses really detect is change, so that the clarity of one spot on the map is only relative to the spot next to it.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• The trajectories of the schools will be interlocked, relative to the strength of their new conferences, for years to come.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• What the Washington primary showed this August was a slight uptick for Democrats, relative to 2022, of about three points.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
• If a show gets high viewership relative to the cost of producing it, it gets renewed.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some power producers switch to coal from natural gas when the price of the latter is high enough relative to the former.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 12 July 2023
• This would produce data that tells you how the car deforms, or moves relative to itself, during a crash.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
• And in the case of the United States, which is still widely considered a safe-haven investment relative to the rest of the world, that is unlikely to change any time soon.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Here are the solutions from the last year that most surprised the bot, along with what the bot thought was their likelihood of appearing, relative to the most common words.
  — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Also, a full moon, King Tide and the orientation of the shoreline relative to how waves hit makes a difference.
  — John McCarthy, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• That rise in home prices comes despite the fact mortgage rates are sky-high relative to recent memory.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• That all makes the Capitals a more dangerous offensive team at five-on-five relative to his minutes.
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• All in all, the idea that Trump won an overwhelming victory in 2024 is less grounded in the data and more based on a sense of surprise relative to (perhaps miscalibrated) expectations.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024