Example sentences for: disproportionate

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

  • However, during longer-term stimulation of T cells, the presence of CD81 costimulation leads to a disproportionate increase in IL-4-producing cells.

  • 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.

  • Of course, most if not all of New York's deficit in goods trade is made up for by exports (to mainland America and the world at large) of intangibles such as financial services and tickets to see Cats ; and the city also has a disproportionate number of wealthy residents, who receive lots of income from the property they own elsewhere.

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

  • CGMA can be used to indicate chromosomal imbalances by detecting chromosomal regions that contain a disproportionate number of gene-expression values that change in the same relative direction.


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