How to Use corollary in a Sentence

corollary

noun
  • The corollary is that anyone who does it more than once is a fool.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • The corollary is that anyone who does it more than once is a fool.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The corollary of this is that, when an ice sheet melts, and its mass is removed, the crust springs back.
    — Robin Wylie, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2014
  • My corollary is to find someone who will listen to you for 50 years.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • The corollary of giving your own hooks is to ask questions that bring out the hooks in others.
    — Alisa Cohn, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The corollary to Rule 2 is that the best defense is a good offense.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The corollary to that is there is another way to do politics.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 10 July 2018
  • The corollary to that wisdom is that what doesn’t get measured is bound to be poorly managed.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The obvious corollary is that the alien broadcasters may have long since cashed in their chips.
    — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • That counts as a great success, but the corollary is that the remaining problems are hard to talk about.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • But most of the stuff in modern day seems sort of not a direct corollary to anything that's going on now.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There was also a corollary between a silent movie vixen trying to survive in a talkies world.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 May 2017
  • The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
    — Ellevate, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • The prostate is a male reproductive organ and the uterus is its female corollary.
    — Dr. Jared G. Heiner, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
  • The corollary is that if their plans fail to pass, unreasonable obstruction must be to blame.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Is there a corollary for men, a genre of self-help books aimed at helping men cope with the stigma of their living-alone status?
    — Ashley Fetters, Curbed, 20 June 2018
  • The corollary to keeping the decision circle too small is putting the wrong people inside it.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
  • The sometimes explicit corollary was that white people were the natural rulers of the globe.
    — Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • The corollary was that leaving the Windows world for a Mac was very costly indeed.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The corollary of that is not promoting outstanding performers in the right role.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And the corollary for the manager, lead with humility and grace and patience.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The corollary is to acknowledge the error of your previous ways quickly.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • For me the corollary is the bench coach in baseball, that everyone recognizes is an important role.
    — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The corollary to that statement is that the passionate collectors who were priced out of the market at peak hype have returned.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The corollary to this problem is favorable forum shopping.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Heat days — the corollary to more common snow days — are the new thing, and experts say families should expect more of the same in the coming years.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Unfortunately there’s a corollary to that, and that’s that the higher pilots goes, the more people can see them—and fire.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
  • Within the space of a chapter, Adam’s alertness to fraud will come to seem a corollary of his own prodigious fraudulence.
    — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Its corollary — that the goal is to allow Big Business to saddle up — remained implicit.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This tallies with other reports and the corollary that the Dynamic Island would shrink.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026

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