Example sentences for: disproportionate

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

  • Patients with severe dependence have a disproportionate share of alcohol-related medical consequences, but it is estimated that such patients generate only a fraction of all alcohol-related problems.

  • In London Friday, the Guardian blamed Hurricane Floyd on America's "massive, wasteful consumption of a disproportionate share of the planet's resources."

  • They found that drivers of air-bag-equipped cars initiate a disproportionate number of crashes involving fatalities, and that, as a result, the occupants of such cars are at considerably higher risk than those in cars without air bags.

  • 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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