How to Use disparate in a Sentence

disparate

adjective
  • The two scales are too disparate to see at the same time.
    Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • What were the odds of these two disparate people popping up at the same place at the same time?
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Its disparate parts don’t quite jell, and the ending feels rushed.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The years and circumstances were as disparate as the cities themselves.
    Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • So there’s wildly disparate costs, even across the street.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 24 June 2019
  • The response to the problem in these hotspots is as disparate as the landscape itself.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
  • At the time, the two disparate groups were attempting to find common ground.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Signs of the disparate impact are already starting to emerge.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 May 2021
  • These disparate views have led to a rift over the most effective way to fight for lasting change.
    oregonlive, 6 June 2020
  • That drives racially disparate arrests and the use of force, researchers say.
    NBC News, 14 May 2018
  • For vain people like me, these are more like threats than a set of disparate options.
    Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 19 June 2017
  • On the surface, the books appear to cover disparate subjects.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2021
  • The topic’s too vast and nebulous and the cultures too disparate.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Rarer still that the recall reaches such disparate places on its third day.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017
  • All in all, the game’s disparate plot threads never come together to feel like more than the sum of their parts.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
  • These most recent protests—much like the gilet jaunes themselves—were disparate.
    Jess McHugh, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The picture of disparate student engagement is not black and white.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Just a week ago, Garcetti was proposing a monorail to connect disparate parts of the city.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2017
  • All of the disparate land parcels are connected by a road, and there’s private beach access as well.
    Helena Madden, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Its disparate impact on young people is not in dispute.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This may seem like a disparate group of powerful people in the fields of entertainment and sports.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022
  • So all three of these seemingly disparate outbreaks now appear to be linked.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 25 Aug. 2020
  • And yet these seemingly disparate tones never feel at odds.
    Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The Asian Cup, with its squads drawn from distant and disparate leagues, has that in abundance.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a charm to having so many disparate elements colliding in a such a small space.
    Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And there’s the fact that a single odor can encompass so many disparate elements.
    Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • These five young guns have wildly disparate expectations, but all are a lock to start.
    Brandon Niles, SI.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • No other band can execute these disparate sounds with such grace.
    Adrian Spinelli, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Trains likewise brought disparate places—and the élites who lived there—closer together.
    The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • There has long been disparate rates in retirement savings between men and women due to the gender wage gap.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 30 Mar. 2022

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