Proportion used in a sentence

Proportion in a sentence as a noun

All the major tech sites blew it way out of proportion.

Pieces of you mind that should serve you and keep you stable and safe, but somehow grown and empowered out of all proportion.

Sure, it's a bug, and it's not to be taken lightly, but the howls of derision here are totally out of proportion.

Android is catching up, but iPhone users still spend a disproportionate amount of time using their phone's browser.

I can't see why you'd chose to nurture a conflict here; you're picking on a small part of his post, reading it in the worst possible light, and blowing it out of proportion.

The real reason programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity: They don't demand it. I had the privilege of working with some extremely talented and productive people.

The press blew it out of proportion, and the scientific community was understandably skeptical.

Proportion in a sentence as a verb

The size and complexity of that tech stack is humongous, to the extent that a large proportion of those who use it don't understand it more than two layers of abstraction down.

What you're basically suggesting is that, in the case of such a black swan event, we will **** off a large proportion of the only people who can prevent it from happening again.

Since the Kalamazoo Promise was announced, enrollment in the school district has grown by 16%, test scores have improved, and a greater proportion of high-school graduates are attending college.

Kahneman and Tversky concluded that "the notion that sampling variance decreases in proportion to sample size is apparently not part of man's repertoire of intuitions.

An effect size of the R2 family is a standardized estimate of the proportion of the variance in one variable that is reduced when another variable is held constant statistically.

But his ego is hilarious and way out of proportion with the rest of his work, and I find it endlessly amusing how bad he is at handling criticism, endlessly irritating how certain he is that he doesn't deserve it.