Example Sentences

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"The pandemic has disproportionably hurt small businesses, and those are the customers of regional banks," he said.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2021

The vaulted roofs are exceedingly lofty; but for the length of the nave, and more especially the choir, the transepts are disproportionably short.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

He has forty-six ribs, while the elephant has only forty; and his claws are disproportionably long. 

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles

He was indeed eminently superior to the vices of the rest; but I did not less exquisitely feel how much he was out of his place, how disproportionably associated, or how contemptibly employed.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

He has forty-six ribs, while the elephant has only forty, and his claws are disproportionably long.

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles