Example sentences for: outweigh

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

  • But in many cases the rewards are not great, they are rarely distributed evenly among individuals, and do not necessarily outweigh the costs.

  • (It is ironic to see, for example, the Wall Street Journal fulminating against government interference with this merger, since the notion that the efficiencies of bigness outweigh the discipline of competition used to go by the name socialism, or even the name communism.)

  • Thus randomized screening trials should only be undertaken when there is strong preliminary evidence for a potential benefit of screening that could outweigh attendant harms.

  • Technology is destroying privacy that we took for granted 20 years ago, but the corresponding benefits--better government services, cheaper products, less crime--may outweigh that loss.

  • Such expressions of solidarity, along with right-wing distaste for the NATO bombing, don't begin to outweigh Israeli sympathy for Kosovars and outrage at Serbs.


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