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.
• Despite the disparity in record, the Packers are favored at home.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• Antiretrovirals are one of biotech's greatest success stories, but there still are disparities in who receives the drugs.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
• This produced a significant disparity overnight as foreign sentiment proved to be volatile.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Creators of color call out disparity in influencer gifting.
  — Saba Hamedy, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2022
• The divergence has resulted in a significant disparity in gun violence from state to state.
  — Matt Valentine, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• But right now, there’s a big disparity in total U.S. employment across energy sectors.
  — Jeremy Gantz, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2022
• There’s a disparity between what police first reported and what actually happened.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• At the time, advocates who pushed for the ordinance called it a major step forward in addressing a huge disparity in legal representation.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2023
• The issue arises because there’s a disparity between the pixel density of the two operating systems.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• Recent studies have shown persistent racial disparities in Colorado’s justice system.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
• However, another cause of disparity is that people of color are statistically less likely to have access to quality health care.
  — Lynya Floyd, SELF, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024