How to Use imbalance in a Sentence

imbalance

noun

• Her depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
• And, of course, there’s an imbalance among kids who have test prep and tutoring and those who don’t.
  — Vulture, 22 Nov. 2023
• Some feel the weight of a power imbalance when their incomes are too disparate.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
• And the way an EV’s brakes work can also add to the feeling of imbalance for some drivers and passengers.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 10 Mar. 2024
• To right these imbalances and lead One With calls for reintegration of mind and body: head with heart, and also with hara.
  — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Back pain is a common cause of discomfort that can pop up due to muscle imbalances, like a weak back.
  — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• There was also an imbalance in acute kidney injury, which occurred in 2.3% of patients in the drug group and 1.5% of those in the placebo group.
  — Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 16 June 2023
• Our parents’ friends who heard the news of our birth and came to congratulate them were puzzled by the imbalance between the two babies.
  — Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• The load imbalance will start to pull your torso toward that side—which means your core will have to fight that urge in order to keep your shoulders square throughout the move.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 11 May 2023
• The mission of Fearless Fund is to help even out the racial imbalance in venture capital funding in the United States.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• The imbalance was even more stark in the state’s House of Representatives, where almost 9 in 10 members were men.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
• An extra challenge will be placed on your core, as your body fights to keep the torso level against the imbalance from one side to another.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• Audit results showed that Oregon has done little to fix the imbalance.
  — oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2023
• This ammunition imbalance has been felt across much of the more than 600-mile front line, Ukrainian soldiers said.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• This imbalance between young and old will be China’s great challenge.
  — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Is that imbalance enough to affect the outcome Saturday night?
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• Prices then slowly retreated to a low of around $74 this June, but supply-demand imbalances have led to a steady rise ever since.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• The moisturizer leaves skin with a dewy finish that doesn’t look too greasy or like an imbalance of oil production.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• Netanyahu's government says the plan is meant to correct an imbalance that has given the courts too much power over the legislative process.
  — Laurie Kellman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Netanyahu’s government says the plan is meant to correct an imbalance that has given the courts too much power over the legislative process.
  — Laurie Kellman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• But Chicago and other female artists were up against much worse than gender imbalances.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• But one thing hadn’t really changed in all that time: the gender imbalance in the key operations and leadership roles on board ships.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• This imbalance is historic… and some of us love it, knowing the pendulum will likely swing back to an era in which someone is tempted to say women need to step up.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• December 2023 Justice: There is an imbalance that has been happening in your life, and it can no longer be ignored.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• Many analysts expect the lira will fall sharply in the months ahead as Turkey’s long-running economic imbalances come to a head.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• The story quickly turns sinister, as the pair’s social imbalances are put on display.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• The growing imbalance between our consumption and our income has strained savings rates to their lowest point in 65 years.
  — Sanjay Datta, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• This leaves a huge risk imbalance in the committed term lengths between landlords and occupants.
  — Christelle Rohaut, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• It’s often caused by an imbalance of bacteria in the oral microbiome.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
• No matter your position, and even in your personal life, there are ways to confront an imbalance.
  — Drew Silverstein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024