Example sentences for: disproportionately

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

  • Measures like controlling sales at gun shows, limiting the volume of gun purchases at any one time, and cutting off dealers whose sold guns are disproportionately involved in crimes.

  • My comment was that there was another possibility besides economics: namely, that black college students might disproportionately prefer spending their disposable income on items besides computers, such as sound systems and cars.

  • Wahlberg is heartbreakingly natural as this ignorant naif; he cries out to be protected, like a puppy whose paws and ears are still disproportionately large.

  • But the opening weekend--which, to be fair, has always been disproportionately important in shaping the way studios handle films--is now of such importance that throwing away the money that could have been made on Friday in order to make the weekend look better somehow seems logical.

  • The financial health of academic medical centers relies heavily on the generation of clinical revenue, which in many centers falls disproportionately on the shoulders of surgeons.


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