Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Exempel

• An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.   You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
• Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
• Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
• "Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage.
• And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.