How to Use disparity in a Sentence

disparity

noun

• There was an enormous disparity in the lives of the rich and the poor in that country.
• In Ohio, the racial disparities are even worse when compared to the rest of the country.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 Nov. 2023
• There was a huge free-throw disparity: the Lakers went to the line 37 times while the Warriors shot just 17 free throws.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• What struck me most was the disparity between the mood inside the chamber and the mood outside it.
  — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• By the time the bubble playoffs ended, the disparity between the two teams was stark.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
• The disparity is driven by more than the revenue gap, though.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
• Much of the disparity reflects pensions and health care.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
• Despite the disparity in views among the subgroups, there was at least some room for agreement.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
• While lawmakers have worked to amend that disparity, it’s been a slow process.
  — Sanya Kamidi, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2023
• Recent trends compared with the past During the last full decade — the 2010s — the disparity between the number of calendar day record highs and lows was stark.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• The total for this contest shows a far greater disparity in the betting action.
  — Bob Wankel | Xl Media, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
• Despite the disparity in record, the Packers are favored at home.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• Rising income inequality, the disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S., has been growing for decades.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Right now, the disparity in talent couldn’t be more profound.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
• That means gender and racial disparities in student debt just grow over time.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• Nowhere are the disparities more apparent than in health care.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The disparity in resources extends down through the youth levels.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• The larger that disparity grows, the greater the possibility the NHL rank-and-file look for a substantial shift in the pay paradigm.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• The disparity comes as Trump's campaign and the GOP are facing cash crunches on several fronts.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• There's concern about historic racial disparities and bias seen in the IRS's enforcement of tax laws.
  — USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• Kyiv had to be; given the disparity in artillery and munitions at the beginning of the war, Ukraine could not afford to waste rockets and shells.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
• Drowning deaths by race Racial disparities in drowning deaths are not new.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 May 2024
• Wide racial and ethnic disparities exist in how the health care system works in Arizona, a new report shows.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
• Pay disparities led to the 2019 lawsuit that the women’s team filed against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
• The characters are Black and white, rich and less well-off, and over the course of the novel, Alam shows how racial and economic disparities frustrate their efforts to survive.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2024
• That means races with large vote disparities can often be called on election night before full results are in.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• That means races with large vote disparities can often be called on election night before full results are in.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
• Here’s what experts had to say about the new research, why gender disparities persist in heart disease care, and how to best protect your health.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 31 May 2024
• But the disparity on display in the Bulldogs’ 30-15 victory was so great that we aren’t convinced Texas has closed the gap entirely.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
• And while there was another significant free throw disparity in the 85-67 loss, Hurley couldn’t put it all on the referees.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024