How to Use comparison in a Sentence

comparison

noun
  • I don't think comparisons of her situation and mine are appropriate.
  • Jones knows the comparisons will come.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Put both on the same page and the comparison turns over.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Nurse has seen the comparisons.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • That isn’t very fast, at least in comparison to the speed of light.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2022
  • So don’t want to set him up for any wild comparisons or anything like that.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Our own don’t seem so bad in comparison.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • How to break free from the comparison trap.
    — Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe there’s a sports comparison here as well.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • On the right, too, the comparison was clear.
    — Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Of course, that's where the comparison ends.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Check out this side-by-side comparison.
    — Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But even that comparison doesn’t make sense.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • And what are your thoughts about that and these comparisons and these forever wars?
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • There have been unfair comparisons with those movies to past movies that opened the summer.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Last year, the even was streamed so there was no direct comparison.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • And of course, there are the frequent comparisons to the run-up to the dot-com bubble.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Those Vance folks are very aware of that comparison.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Jones smiled when told about the comparison to Zedak.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The first is the comparison trap.
    — Ashley Hass, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • And, yeah, there are comparisons between episode seven and his work.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
  • When told of the comparison, Allen lights up.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • What’s the point of this comparison?
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • In comparison, movies are a respite.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
  • There will inevitably be comparisons between the two shows.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • The major caveat to this comparison, though, is price.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
  • People say comparison is the thief of joy.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But others have said the comparison is apt.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the quick compression in value has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bust.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026

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