How to Use unbalance in a Sentence

unbalance

1 of 2 verb
  • The tax cuts have unbalanced the budget.
  • If too many people stand up, it will unbalance the boat.
  • The foreign objects that rest upon my shoulders and head weighed me down and unbalanced my weighty body.
    — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The risk is that only a handful of clubs will be able to cough up those sums, unbalancing the market.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • Two laps are enough to addle your brain and unbalance your equilibrium.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Bent, warped, or broken blades unbalance the fan and need to be replaced to fix the issue, but the blades don't need to be broken to cause problems.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2022
  • Joseph Stalin happens to be funding their movie, a fact that unbalances their moral calculus.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This forces the defense to unbalance, which limits its ability to disguise its intentions.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 27 July 2017
  • The land turns from a carbon sink into a carbon source, further unbalancing our planet’s carbon cycle.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Surface use of bark won’t unbalance soil chemistry, whereas mixing bark into the soil will unbalance soil chemistry.
    — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Weighing only 23 pounds, this motor won’t unbalance your kayak when fixed to a mount that puts the eight-speed telescoping handle close at hand.
    — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Amorim’s personnel changes unbalanced an already fragile team.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • To be sure, solely focusing on compensation for providers could also unbalance the delicate equation.
    — Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
  • Austerity’s main effect was not to rebalance the budget, but to unbalance it differently.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Soltan, Mittal, and Poor found that an attack focused on unbalancing supply across a grid could cause line failures as power is moved from one part of the grid to another.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2018
  • In freestyle wrestling, athletes can use any part of the body to unbalance their opponent, for example through leg attacks or throws (in Greco-Roman wrestling, only the upper body and arms are used).
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 4 Aug. 2021
  • View gallery - 3 images Downing fruit and vegetable juice as a way of fasting, cleansing, or detoxing can unbalance the health-affecting bacteria in your gut and mouth, according to a new study.
    — Paul McClure 06, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This notion that infection can unbalance the immune system has often been invoked to explain the onset of autoimmune diseases — conditions in which the immune system attacks the very body it’s meant to protect.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Imagine the wartime use of leaflets that were dropped in large quantities over battlefields, or onto townships, and contained a single message that was intended to mentally unbalance large numbers of citizens or soldiers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This process will eventually unbalance the ecology of the region, raise local temperatures, and potentially impact our global climate.
    — Greg Autry, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And in medieval and early modern Europe, when impure blood was believed to unbalance the humors of the body and cause disease, the creatures were seen as solicitous helpers, ever ready to relieve a patient of their unwelcome plasma.
    — Zoey Poll, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Moreover, releasing additional organisms into areas where there might already be a ladybug population could further unbalance the current ecosystem.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • A little self-flagellation can be fun, but a Goofus-and-Gallant dynamic develops between Simone and Gigi that unbalances the drama.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Many healthcare experts, including insurers, have suggested this approach would result in young and healthy people purchasing minimal plans, unbalancing risk pools and leaving older and sicker Americans to shoulder higher costs.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 14 July 2017
  • Already, individual district programs and organizations such as ResearchEd and Teach for America all offer robust alternatives that could collectively unbalance the university monopoly.
    — Daniel Buck, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021

unbalance

2 of 2 noun
  • The two sides were (and still are) unlikely to come to terms given the unbalance in value.
    — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In the end, Richards still felt there was unbalance there — but was happy to at least get an apology.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • This unbalance can escalate, and the blades may start hitting the casing that contains them.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2016
  • For example notions like asymmetry, unbalance, anything which challenges that basic idea of speed for the sake of it, can now be desirable.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Planned or not, the unbalance was befitting, punctuating an evening that unsettled and sometimes even assaulted the senses.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • In most previous passenger car applications of this engine, the fourth harmonic unbalance occurs beyond the normal speed range.
    — Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2020
  • No, the loss of the horizontal stabilizers would result in an severe aerodynamic unbalance.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Fashion is a sector that has heavily relied on third-party manufacturing, producing an overall unbalance of big brands versus small players.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a fatal unbalance as Alex spins out, in a minutely detailed personal and professional crisis, over a character depicted in broad and not particularly artful strokes.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Multiple personnel groups, multiple formations, unbalance, shifts, motions, trades.
    — Kevin Cunningham, ajc, 5 Sep. 2017
  • However, since his departure, Shaw has failed to live up to expectations at Old Trafford while Young, who has enjoyed a superb campaign this term, being right-footed provides an unbalance down the flank.
    — SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Components of the gut flora are also involved in digesting certain foodstuffs containing complex carbohydrates, and an unbalance in the relevant microbial mix is implicated in obesity.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Even so, the first half belonged more to OL Lyonnes than to Barcelona, manager Jonatan Giraldez doing well to use the physicality and pace of his new team to unbalance that of his former.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 23 May 2026

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