Sentence example with the word 'overbalance'

overbalance

Definition v. weigh more heavily

Last update: September 23, 2015


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He overbalanced on the pole and fell down to the horror of the spectators.   [Please select]

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By reason of the constantly changing temperatures and the frequent filling and emptying of the reservoir, expansion and contraction, which are always at work tending to produce relative movements wherever one portion of a structure is weaker than another, must have assisted the water-pressure in the extension of the horizontal cracks, which, growing slowly during the fifteen years, provided at last the area required to enable the intrusive water to overbalance the little remaining stability of the dam.   [Please select]

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"You have other advantages," he replied, "which far overbalance my greater stature and stronger muscles."   [Please select]

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"You should see all these drawbacks and then decide for yourselves whether the advantages of Christmas overbalance the drawbacks."   [Please select]

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Equally fortunate was it, that the amount of overbalance was exceedingly slight--otherwise he might have been dashed with violence to the earth.   [Please select]

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To some these may seem to overbalance that to which I object.   [Please select]

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This "for the most part" paints the situation, for there existed an opposition, a minority, which might grow to balance, and overbalance.   [Please select]

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Righting himself, he almost overbalanced the other way, and only finally managed to come to an intricate halt on one leg.   [Please select]

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He settled without grace, and almost overbalanced on to his Grecian nose.   [Please select]

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He had overbalanced on to his back, and, being unable to turn over, had been drowned, though the water was scarcely half an inch deep.   [Please select]

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In the case of a long war, the losses from these causes may, even for the victors, overbalance any advantage which may be secured in the way of territory or money from the vanquished nation.   [Please select]

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