unbalance

Example Sentences

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“That’s something we need on this team, players that will unbalance defenses and open up gaps to be able to play through teams.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Directorial impulses that seem designed to ratchet up the audience-pleasing quotients of some of his most famous plays, but that in one way or another unbalance them and diminish their inherent power.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

"I assure you that we will not allow any kind of provocation to unbalance us."

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2022

In the days when bottles were handmade, glassblowers would push in the bottoms of bottles to make certain they would stand upright, without a nub of glass to unbalance them.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

And the tangle of vines and undergrowth, which unbalance me occasionally, trip him at every step.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins