Example sentences for: disproportionately

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

  • An article argues that blacks may be better athletes than whites because they have more genetic variability: According to statistical laws, more variability means that blacks are disproportionately represented among both the best and the worst athletes.

  • If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?

  • Ethnic Chinese make up about a third of the population but control a disproportionately higher percentage of the country's wealth."

  • Headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, the committee grants amnesty to all who confess to political crimes, as long as the crimes are not "disproportionately" heinous.

  • disproportionately high 25 percent.


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