overbalancing

Example Sentences

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But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2016

“It’s of no use,” he said at last despondently, after nearly overbalancing himself, and feeling very dizzy once more.

From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville

The earliest mechanical device intended to produce perpetual motion is that known as the overbalancing wheel.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

His pack swung suddenly to the side, overbalancing him.

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack