overbalance

Example Sentences

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We see a robot falling on the last step of a banked turn; another face-plants as it overbalances and slips on nothing.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2021

At one stage, mid-sentence, he leans back so far that he nearly overbalances.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

We have a similar character here, the conventional conception of Hamlet, a man whose power of reasoning overbalances his strength of will.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

“Why don’t you haul one side up till the raft’s edgewise, and then work it out through the gangway with the levers till it overbalances and tumbles in?” said Carey.

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.

But the unabated vigour and spirit of the version more than overbalances these and all its other deficiencies.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George