proportioned

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• His cropped leather jackets with their dolman sleeves were perfectly proportioned over his attenuated, back-slit skirts.

• The deftness of Smith's drafts(wo)manship can often be overlooked in her E.T.-proportioned figures.

• Xtra Insight: Former Clinton Speechwriter Ted Widmer on Obama's Biblically-Proportioned Success.

• “This house must have been the hotel of some distinguished family, Baron; it is nobly proportioned,” said David Arden.

• Beneath its far-flung branches a syce was sitting in front of a finely-proportioned and unusually big Arab horse.

• We had a large salle in the Hotel Bremen which was admirably proportioned, and a new grand piano from Berlin.

• The movable bridge in its closed position must be proportioned like a fixed bridge, but it has also other conditions to fulfil.

• The camel commonly lives forty or fifty years, which term of life is proportioned to the time of its growth.