How to Use disproportionate in a Sentence

disproportionate

adjective

• A disproportionate number of the students are poor.
• He believes that middle-class people bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden.
• The disproportionate toll on Black women is one point on which the CDC and the new study agree.
  — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2024
• Such events have been on the rise in recent years, and a disproportionate number of shooters in the U.S. are young men.
  — David Nakamura, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Both work in a matter of minutes and bring me a disproportionate amount of joy.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some puffer-style vests can be difficult to fold and take up a disproportionate amount of space.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2024
• But with lipedema, areas of fat are disproportionate to the rest of the body — and may stop abruptly.
  — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 8 Feb. 2024
• Is there a single story in the collection that holds a disproportionate amount of your work and care?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• There is also a disproportionate lemon falling from the sky above her.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• In fact, this kind of career might self-select for a disproportionate number of founders.
  — Christina Farr, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
• One aspect of this is the use of disproportionate force—that the extent of the harm done to civilians should be proportionate to your military goals.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• Of those not found within six months, a disproportionate number are Black.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
• Of those not found within six months, a disproportionate number were Black.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• Black people are subject to car stops at a disproportionate rate.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• Israel is carrying out the same disproportionate use of force in Palestine at the moment.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• These groups make up a disproportionate share of the renter population.
  — Priscilla Almodovar, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• People of color would have been received a disproportionate amount of help.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• The earnings report reflects the disproportionate risks that Hertz has assumed in its dealings with Tesla and Uber.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
• When the pandemic shut down the economy and schools in 2020, women felt the brunt of the impact with a disproportionate number choosing to leave the workforce to take care of their families.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• Armstead recognizes the disproportionate struggle of Black students due to a lack of resources and lack of funding.
  — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
• The Arab world is hardly standing with Hamas, though it’s outraged by the disproportionate onslaught unleashed by Israel.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The credibility of those who knew that was disproportionate to those who are making the money and those who are running the businesses.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• Why do such a disproportionate number of people of color go missing in this country?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• Black San Franciscans continued to make up a disproportionate share of the victims.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• These states also have a high proportion of people of color, a disproportionate number of whom lost their jobs and may have felt unable to care for more children, Adelman says.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
• See more Many users also highlighted the disproportionate impact climate events tend to have on Asian countries.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• Of the women who have come forward [against Weinstein], people should do a study to see who was represented by who at the time, because there does seem to be a disproportionate number of us who were with CAA.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• While that’s not specific to being an immigrant, any cuts could have a disproportionate impact on immigrants, who rely on H-1B visas tied to their jobs to stay in the country.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Think of major Finnish conductors working around the world today — there are a disproportionate number of them — and chances are they studied with Panula.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• But the strongly antiabortion wing of the party has long had disproportionate influence.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024