How to Use disproportion in a Sentence

disproportion

noun
  • His salary is in disproportion to what people who have similar jobs earn.
  • There was the same sort of disproportion when my bulky parents read aloud to us on the couch.
    — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • One type of admirer thinks, Why this disproportion, a master catering to young birds?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • This sense of scale -- or rather, disproportion -- underpins the whole film, and becomes the case in Diana's defense.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Black residents, who make up 46 percent of the city, have died in staggering disproportion.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Looking beyond the tech pay gap, the overall disproportion uncovered by our research told a similar story.
    — Nigel Wilson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This is another factor of the ongoing disproportion in revenues.
    — Timur Turlov, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Morton cited the disproportion number of black children in foster care and the juvenile justice system as factors.
    — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The disproportion between deed and reaction results in both comedy and the revelation of truth.
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • That doesn’t mean selling exceptional museum art to rectify the disproportion makes sense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • That this feeling of disproportion is fainter in the Broadway production than in 2018 may provide a clue to the answer.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Focusing on American prisons as a pillar example of racial disproportion, the documentary is a fierce call to action that can’t be missed.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Focusing on American prisons as a pillar example of racial disproportion, the documentary is a fierce call to action that can’t be missed.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2020
  • This disproportion of means between a simple blog and a billing company is an impediment to any kind of justice in the American judicial system.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The disproportion is similar at other high-achieving New York City schools where admission is determined by an achievement test.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • The impunity of the American police has been achieved by slow accretion through the decades, and with the tacit understanding that it would be deployed in great disproportion against black people.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The impunity of the American police has been achieved by slow accretion through the decades, and with the tacit understanding that it would be deployed in great disproportion against black people.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The impunity of the American police has been achieved by slow accretion through the decades, and with the tacit understanding that it would be deployed in great disproportion against black people.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 14 June 2020
  • That disproportion slights the postwar failure of his push to make a Christian Sparta among citizens more devoted to making money and buying consumer goods.
    — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The role of Ramona especially resonates in the hands of a mega-watt celebrity whose own physical attributes have been mocked and exaggerated in gross disproportion to her talent.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • There are plenty more questions to be answered—about the genetics of fetopelvic disproportion risk, the role that neonatal care might play in helping smaller babies to survive, and whether other data sets show the same increase in risk.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And yet Chicago police continue to use force against and arrest people of color — particularly Black people — in wild disproportion to white people.
    — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
  • If women are at best no more productive than men, a faculty-level gender disparity might be an efficient outcome, albeit one tilted by the disproportion in the pool of undergraduates.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Sonon, for example, started out as a cartoonist and uses physical disproportion to express the personalities of characters.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The disproportion between their personal feelings and the wanton destruction of real estate and innocent life is both comical and horrific, and also oddly persuasive.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 18 July 2017
  • Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The slowing growth of the global population, the disproportion in different industries’ performance and the redistribution of wealth have created a new reality for financial assets.
    — Timur Turlov, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Another example would be that almost 60% of corporate CEOs are over six-foot-tall; a large disproportion compared to the fact that less than 15% of American men are over this height.
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Just as the point of state neutrality is personal non-neutrality, the point of political egalitarianism is interpersonal disproportion.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Over the history of Tasers in Chicago, their use has been marked by the same racial disparity seen in other elements of policing in the city, as cops have inflicted shocks in vast disproportion to African-Americans in poor and violent areas.
    — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017

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