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Sentence count:57Posted:2017-04-04Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: proportionateproportionalproportional representationproportionin proportion toaffectionatelydispassionatefortunatelyMeaning: adv. 1. out of proportion 2. to a disproportionate degree. 
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1. Babies often seem to have disproportionately large heads.
2. These jobs are disproportionately concentrated in the service sector.
3. Women are disproportionately represented among welfare recipients.
4. The lower-paid spend a disproportionately large amount of their earnings on food.
5. This seemed to upset Leslie disproportionately.
6. Grammar school pupils were drawn disproportionately from middle-class families.
7. Diabetes affects older people and racial minorities disproportionately.
8. Lacking white skills, disproportionately large numbers are incarcerated in penal institutions, alcohol rehabilitation centres and psychiatric hospitals.
9. In California, for example, a disproportionately high number of Hispanic teens are giving birth.
10. The bureaucracy benefits disproportionately from the absorption by the state of pre-capitalist institutions, offices, powers and duties. 9.
11. Retroactive cost justification also fails because it disproportionately distributes benefits and costs among organizational constituencies.
12. It is disproportionately uncommon among women, and some authorities believe this is due to its producing a carrier state in females.
13. Even there, senior and management posts go disproportionately to men.
14. Studies show a disproportionately high amount of crime attributable to kids born after long, difficult labors with forceps deliveries.
15. The basis of flexibility is disproportionately shouldered by female patterns of labour force participation.
16. If Catholics figure disproportionately in the crime statistics,(Sentencedict.com ) it is because Protestants are more law-abiding.
17. Just as fuel consumption grows disproportionately as speeds rise, so does the emission of air pollutants.
18. Women who make partner are disproportionately unmarried or divorced, and childless.
19. In addition, blacks are still disproportionately represented in the lower levels of the stratification system.
20. The Tory party has not said that it would ensure that rural areas do not suffer disproportionately as a result.
21. However, the number of people willing to make the commitment to Communist party membership remained disproportionately small.
22. A given increase in dosage, therefore, may produce a disproportionately large increase of serum level.
23. These are staffed mainly by people from the wealthiest countries, with the United States disproportionately represented.
24. The report demonstrated that the 1980s austerity measures had disproportionately affected blue collar workers in comparison with white collar workers.
25. In those countries where indigenous women existed side by side with a late-arriving and dominant population, the indigenous women suffered disproportionately.
26. The main reason for the change is the rise in indirect taxes such as valued added tax which affect the poor disproportionately.
27. How else would we account for black men being disproportionately arrested for robbery and murder?
28. Aside from shift workers, which groups of people are disproportionately liable to be stopped and questioned by the police?
29. However, there's no doubt the blitz on the weeds on our return from holiday took a disproportionately long spell.
30. The distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment is blurred and may affect women disproportionately.
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