Example sentences for: disproportionate

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

  • While society-run and nonprofit journals may not be the major contributors to those spiraling costs, societies that rely on revenues from subscriptions and site licenses may bear a disproportionate share of the negative consequences of skyrocketing serials prices.

  • Republicans are right that campaign finance reform is "class warfare": It would wrest from the hands of the moneyed elite the disproportionate political power it now wields.

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

  • The disproportionate number of small business addresses in Italy (Scarfiglieri and Visco Comandini 2001) may help explain this.

  • One is that the disabled have a strong, perhaps disproportionate, influence when it comes to public policy.


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