Example sentences for: disproportionate

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

  • The WP goes inside with a new nationwide study of high-school disciplinary practices, which, it says, shows that in the two years since "zero tolerance" anti-violence policies were popularized, black students at the schools surveyed have been expelled or suspended at a rate disproportionate to their numbers.

  • Colleges in the home states of powerful Appropriations Committee senators benefit from a disproportionate share of the pork.

  • Many doctors have long criticized the research as disproportionate to actual suffering--when compared to more common diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's, for instance--but the advances in virology, microbiology, and immunology brought about by the research have now led to several non-AIDS-related medicines.

  • Similarly, limitations of Cul1 function in other organisms also uncovered the disproportionate importance of particular substrates.

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


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