Example sentences for: disproportionate

How can you use “disproportionate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You would need to show that the racial breakouts of punishments are disproportionate, not to the racial composition of the student bodies, but to the racial composition of the rule breakers .

  • PROMO's report claimed that local TV news foments fear and hostility among city residents and suburbanites alike by devoting a disproportionate share of its broadcast time to crime.

  • Genomic regions that contain a disproportionate number of genes that change expression in the same relative direction (that is, show a gene-expression bias) may indicate an underlying chromosomal gain or loss (Figure 1a) [ 2, 3, 7, 8].

  • In addition, as the NEA itself concedes, a more pressing constitutional question would arise if government funding resulted in the imposition of a disproportionate burden calculated to drive "certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace."

  • But a disproportionate number of domestic apparel workers are still immigrants.


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