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

He rejected any suggestion that such financial support for a specific investigation could unbalance the court's caseload.

From Reuters • Mar. 14, 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

The building shook mightily, with enough force to unbalance several terrified Clock Watchers, toppling them.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles