How to Use outsize in a Sentence

outsize

adjective

• The Beckhams had an outsize impact on the celebrity style game.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2023
• Take the outsize sweet potato, big enough to qualify as a main course.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• There were many reasons for this, but the decline of labor unions played an outsize role.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
• Despite their outsize impact, the book burners are not a large group.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• That gives outsize leverage to any faction willing to use it.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• Rather than develop a chip on his shoulder or outsize ego, Gad stayed grounded amid the ups and downs.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Some trees may have an outsize nuisance for you, compared with others.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• Of those voters, more than 8 million of them will be first-time voters, and could play an outsize role in electing the next president.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
• Wet Leg arrived with the kind of outsize hype that has become relatively rare.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• The company has been criticized for its outsize role in the ticketing industry in the U.S.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some cherry trees are not like the others, and one is receiving outsize attention this year.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• But its disadvantage is Musk’s outsize role in determining the conduct of the war.
  — Steven Feldstein, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
• Its outsize role has come under greater scrutiny since the collapse in November of FTX.
  — Patricia Kowsmann and Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• But the abuses that do happen can have outsize consequences when countries wind up staring down the barrel.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The change in the weather has had an outsize impact on the festivals, events and tourism that define the Great Lakes identity and produce the income of those living and working there.
  — Whitney Wild, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• The extra weight that EVs typically carry stems from the outsize mass of their batteries.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
• How this happened—not once, but twice—reveals the outsize power of one of the world's most tight-lipped technology companies.
  — Darren Loucaides, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• Ireland owes its outsize role in the eurozone’s economic fortunes to the rapid growth of its economy since 2014.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 23 July 2023
• Though even there, his ambition, like his clothes, is outsize and impossible to miss.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• Indeed, the Netherlands plays an outsize role in Europe’s startup ecosystem.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
• Periods of low returns follow episodes of outsize gains.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• The funding fight is driven by a small group of far-right rebels in the House who wield outsize power in the narrow Republican majority.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• The outsize photograph, which covers an entire wall, was a gift from an early customer, a printer who owned the shot of Istanbul.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• The main living space is dominated by two outsize pieces, both by artists with connections to Freeman’s gallery.
  — Travis Diehl Dean Kaufman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• But Jamaica is a place with an outsize influence on global culture.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
• What’s certain is that any dip – or rise – in numbers in Guinea-Bissau has an outsize impact on the overall population.
  — Sam Bradpiece, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
• This show has drawn an outsize number of new international customers to Prime Video.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 May 2023
• That has put outsize international focus on the vote in a country of just 5.5 million people.
  — Ladka Bauerova, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Some schools tweaked rules to prevent the most flagrant types of misconduct, but the outsize roles of wealth, class and race — which were thrust into public view in shocking plainness — loom as large as ever.
  — Collin Binkley, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
• Campaign fundraising and spending have long played an outsize role in elections because the candidate who spends the most money often wins their races.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024