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Example sentences for "overbalance"

Lexicographically close words:
overarches; overarching; overawe; overawed; overawing; overbalanced; overbalancing; overbear; overbearing; overblown
  1. This is still further evident by taking out the pin at K; for then the weight P will overbalance the other weight at V, because then their perpendicular ascent and descent will not be equal.

  2. The end of Poetry is to produce excitement in coexistence with an overbalance of pleasure.

  3. Most likely you know that we have changed our residence in Grasmere, which I hope will be attended with a great overbalance of advantages.

  4. One lies in forgetting in the excellence of what remains the large overbalance of worthlessness that has been swept away.

  5. Mr. Nicholson, who was second on the committee, was a close friend of Randolph, and more or less influenced by him, while the other members friendly to the Administration wanted the weight necessary to overbalance the chairman.

  6. There remained no sufficient force, perhaps no sufficient prejudice, to overbalance the natural tendency of Mr. Gallatin's mind towards science and repose.

  7. Before being a wife or mother, one is a human being; and neither motherly nor wifely destination can overbalance or replace the human, but must become its means, not end.

  8. But, before and after being a mother, one is a human being; and neither the motherly nor the wifely destination can overbalance or replace the human, but must become its means, not its end.

  9. But then you must have a native territory in strength, situation, or government, able to overbalance the foreign, or you can never hold it.

  10. But what degree of intensity will overbalance what period of duration?

  11. Whatever miracles, divine or diabolical, were meant to effect, it was not to overbalance the general sway of purely human power, of which this world is the appointed stage.

  12. To those who judge that the right to express their sentiments requires no more than sincerity, or that their praise is of a value to overbalance the disrespect of offering it, I shall leave the usual language of dedications.

  13. Again, the division into many small cells is often connected with a large and pithy placenta and unevenness in maturity and coloring, which faults often more than overbalance any advantage from small cells and thick flesh.

  14. When the weight of water was sufficient to overbalance the loaded car, the bucket descended, raising the car.

  15. To permit the upper car to descend under the first condition, the plungers were made sufficiently heavy, by the addition of cast iron at their lower ends, to overbalance the weight of a capacity load in the lower car.

  16. The chances were in an overbalance against the empire; but for the emperor there was no chance at all.

  17. The yearly increase in population would more than likely overbalance the number transported.

  18. In which latter situation the accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation increases by its superabundance the associability of the fibres of the stomach, so as to overbalance the defect of the excitement of their association.

  19. A little more and it would overbalance and carry the horse head over heels!

  20. We do nothing so useful or profitable,' sighed poor Owen, striving to pull himself up by the table, but desisting on finding that it was more likely to overbalance than to be a support.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overbalance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annul; asymmetry; avoirdupois; beef; best; better; cap; contrariety; deadweight; difference; disparity; disproportion; exceed; excel; excess; gravity; heft; imbalance; improve; inadequacy; injustice; insufficiency; irregularity; net; odds; outweigh; overcome; overpass; overweight; perfect; poundage; predominate; preponderate; prevail; shortcoming; skew; surpass; tonnage; top; transcend; trump; unbalance; underweight; unevenness; upset