How to Use tip the balance in a Sentence

tip the balance

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• In the end, a handful of seats, or even just one, could tip the balance.
  — Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• This could well be the year when these various forces push hard enough to finally tip the balance.
  — Hannah Ritchie, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• Still, his party may further split votes that could tip the balance in a tight race and his return cannot be ruled out.
  — Eileen Ng, ajc, 16 Nov. 2022
• The race, like that for Scottsdale mayor, could tip the balance of power in city hall.
  — Sean Holstege, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
• In the end, just a handful of seats, or as little as one, could tip the balance in either chamber.
  — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Thursday's deaths appeared to tip the balance and push Biden to approve airdrops.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2024
• Here are five players that could tip the balance in Saturday's showdown.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 3 Mar. 2022
• Adding a sizeable amount to that total against the Tide could tip the balance in the Bearcats' favor.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2021
• For that reason, third-party candidates could tip the balance of the race by pulling votes away from the major parties.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
• Done right, this approach could finally tip the balance of power away from attackers.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Lu Lin says government subsidies might help tip the balance for her at some point — if the money's good enough.
  — John Ruwitch, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
• Western intervention again helped tip the balance.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2023
• Factories and transportation add millions of wheels, while homes and large buildings could tip the balance toward doors.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• The big problem, of course, is that nobody knows exactly what will tip the balance too far in the opposite direction.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Europe could do their utmost to back Kyiv, but fail to tip the balance without American backup.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
• Israel may balk at the prospect of making such concessions, but the centrist members of the unity government might help tip the balance.
  — Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2023
• With this unevenness and weakness in some sectors, the next big question is what could tip the balance toward a slowdown or another year of growth.
  — Brian Blank, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
• Delaying certification could swing a close election in which a single state’s electoral votes tip the balance.
  — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Arizona is one of a handful of states on the Electoral College map that could tip the balance of the presidential race.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
• In the intense global LiDAR race, this agility could tip the balance.
  — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• Creating local markets for recycled waste in Arizona could tip the balance.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Admittedly, that did not decisively tip the balance last summer.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• More recently it has been credited with helping tip the balance in conflicts like Libya and Nagorno Karabakh.
  — Jomana Karadsheh and Isil Sariyuce, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• Prigozhin may have planned the operation as a means to get Putin’s attention and to tip the balance of behind-the-scenes power and influence back in his favor.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• Lissner and Rapp-Hooper argue that the United States can still tip the balance in favor of an open and rules-based order.
  — Patrick Porter, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
• The campaign’s closing weeks are likely to remain contentious as both sides seek to leverage national political trends and local issues to tip the balance.
  — Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• This show takes that delicate balance on board with the understanding that childhood is the foundation on which all society is built, and the need to tip the balance in the right direction.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Along with other firsts, this mayoral election gives the city a chance to turn the page on that cozy dynamic — to tip the balance away from luxury condos, and toward people struggling to afford homes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
• In the final weeks of this knife’s edge presidential campaign, the sprint to the finish line has come down to swaying the small slice of undecided or infrequent voters who could tip the balance.
  — Meghan McCarron, Bon Appétit, 29 Oct. 2024
• The states will be key to winning the White House in 63 days, with the states within the margin of error in this survey being able to tip the balance of the election.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Sep. 2024