5 sentences with 'disproportionate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disproportionate and other words derived from it.
• « Nobles owned a disproportionate amount of land, and in some kingdoms (such as Russia), only nobles could own land. »
• « This reaction was widely seen as particularly harsh and disproportionate, given that the Czechs and Slovaks did not rise up in any violent way (as the Hungarians had done, at least briefly, twelve years earlier). »
• « If they fell to the ground, it was almost impossible for the pterosaurus to get up, as the effort would tear their huge, disproportionate wings. »
• « Many in the North were outraged by what appeared to be a Southern plan, orchestrated by what they perceived as the Slave Power - a term they used to describe the disproportionate influence wielded by elite slaveholders - to expand slavery. »