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.
• Data shows that Black people are stopped at disproportionate rates.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• The virus is related to smallpox — which anyone can get — but this new outbreak is spreading among gay and bisexual men at disproportionate levels.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• 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
• That means the parents who do attend and speak up can have a disproportionate amount of sway.
  — Annie Ma and Linley Sanders, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• 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
• As the days, months and years that followed demonstrate, politicians opted for the blind and disproportionate route.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
• In fact, this kind of career might self-select for a disproportionate number of founders.
  — Christina Farr, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
• Police stops led to hundreds of killings of unarmed people in the past few years, a disproportionate number of them Black.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2023
• White Chicagoans at the time accused them of receiving disproportionate resources from the city, and in 1919 tensions boiled over.
  — Matt Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Twitter, while not as big, has long had influence disproportionate to the size of its user base.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
• And why are a disproportionate percentage of the victims black men?
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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
• There is a disproportionate impact on children compared to all other conflicts, in terms of injuries, in terms of those killed.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• The relationship between gun violence and the Black community is troubled, with disproportionate numbers of police shootings and community shootings leaving lasting consequences around the country.
  — Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
• And a disproportionate number of the babies affected are Hispanic, Black and Native American.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024