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
• Much of the disparity reflects pensions and health care.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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 one caveat was that swaths of the population still see disparities in the way the department polices Black and Latino residents.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• This disparity often takes women off of C-suite paths early on in their careers.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Gallup attributes some of the disparity to election cycles and the party that is currently in office.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
• Perhaps the craziest part is that the home-away disparity was just one of numerous oddities to emerge.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• But to deal with that particular disparity requires a whole lot more.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• These widening racial disparities in overdose deaths are just another long-term consequence of the War on Drugs, McLoyd says.
  — Nicole Leonard | Whyy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• This general failure can be attributed to the disparities between the United States and Iran.
  — Jon B. Alterman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024
• The disparity between foster children and available beds has eased slightly, but a gap still exists.
  — Jason Laughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Racial disparities in health outcomes and death rates have been seen in a number of specific areas in prior studies.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 16 May 2023
• Bridges also drew another distinction between the role of race in college admissions and the role of race in health disparities.
  — Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• One explanation for that disparity is that men of color tend to be diagnosed with melanoma later than white men.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 July 2023
• One of our all-time favorite sources, the survey provides our best measure of America’s ghastly wealth disparities.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The study also calls for better climate policies to address these disparities.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The force accounting for the wide disparity in appreciation between the two broad markets: the level of employment and wage growth.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Much of that disparity is explained by the fact that non-Hispanic Black newborns are 2½ times as likely to die before their 1st birthdays as non-Hispanic whites.
  — Liz Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• The disparity is even clearer after looking at the statistics.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024