respectively

In a sentence

Six example sentences with respectively, each labelled with its topic.

• Copper and aluminum melt at 1085 and 660 degrees respectively, so the workshop heats the two metals in separate furnaces.

  Science

• The guard and the center finished with twenty-eight and eleven points respectively, and both played the entire second half.

  Basketball

• Exports and imports grew four and seven percent respectively, so the trade gap widened even as both figures rose.

  Economics

• The two funds returned nine and four percent respectively, and the cheaper one was the better performer.

  Finance

• The two candidates won forty-eight and forty-six percent respectively, with the remainder going to a write-in campaign.

  Politics

• Bake the loaves and the rolls for forty and fifteen minutes respectively, and pull the rolls out first.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

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