How To Use Proportionable In A Sentence
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If a gentleman cuts canals and erects terraces in his garden, their intrinsic value will be proportionable to the land and labor; but the price in reality will not always follow this proportion.
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In concluding their report, the consultants stated the inescapable reality was that, for the foreseeable future, car travel will continue to grow in both absolute and proportionable terms.
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A worm of proportionable enormity had bored a hole in the shell.
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The bridle and the rudder too, he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most cerebrated philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he took to instruct his son.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.
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And this I likewise might confirm of two elms, planted by me about 35 years since; which being little bigger than walking-staves, and set on the very brink of a ditch or narrow channel (not always full of water) wharfed with a wall of a brick and half in thickness, (to keep the bank from falling in) are since grown to goodly and equally spreading trees of near two foot diameter, solid timber, and of stature proportionable.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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a good return at harvest are not wont to pinch and spare in sowing their seed, for the return is usually proportionable to what they sow, v. 6. 2.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Credit fell to the ground, mutual confidence entirely ceased, and the fall of the price of raw produce, as it was chiefly occasioned by a rise in the value of money, was accompanied by a proportionable increase of rent.
