By comparison
Sort of and by comparison are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sort of" instead an adverb phrase "By comparison".
Sort of
Sort of adverb - To some degree or extent.
By comparison and sort of are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "By comparison" instead an adverb phrase "Sort of".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- like and by comparison
- like and sort of
- somewhat and by comparison
- somewhat and sort of
- rather and by comparison
- rather and sort of
- fairly and by comparison
- fairly and sort of
- pretty and by comparison
- pretty and sort of
- tolerably and by comparison
- tolerably and sort of
- reasonably and by comparison
- reasonably and sort of
Both terms in one sentence
- By comparison the Janisary Tax or Blood Tax, which was sort of an Ottoman version of The Academy, on a massive scale was explicitly designed to do this.
Source: Don't Split Us Up -
The game sort of allows you to gauge their strength by comparison—you get to fight two Craftlords directly throughout the course of the game, Lubert and Ureksa.
Source: Video Game / Summon Night -
Writers will sometimes compensate by making the more attractive woman some sort of mysterious secret agent, thus relegating the Vasquez character to a Mook or Red Shirt by comparison.
Source: Vasquez Always Dies
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