How To Use Overbalance In A Sentence
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Suddenly the beam was withdrawn and Cecil, who had been straining against it, overbalanced and fell flat on his face onto the now icy cold carpeting.
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Hyde shifted his weight and felt himself teeter forward, beginning to overbalance.
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He attempted to hold the two men apart, but pressing too hard against the truculent individual, overbalanced him and threw him to the floor.
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Leclère kicked out with one foot, but the rope bit into his neck and checked so abruptly as nearly to overbalance him.
BÂTARD
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Oracle has tried to 'thicken' its application layer, moving from raw database to applications servers to fully configured solutions, and this effort has overbalanced its services initiatives.
Tim Oren's Due Diligence
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It is not desirable to overbalance the budget
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They figured the weight of the stuff overbalanced them and they fell off of places.
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Panic and fear flashed in his eyes with the understanding that the slightest movement could cause him to overbalance.
BETTER THAN THIS
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I watch as her foot slips from the narrow track and she overbalances backwards, dragged by the weight of her heavy pack.
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I managed to sit down a little heavily into a canvas director's chair, causing me to overbalance and topple over backward.
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Chad smirked and leaned closer, careful not to overbalance.
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If she leaned too far to go to the toilet, she'd overbalance entirely and never be able to get up again.
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The historical Luther had the hero-spirit in him in high degree; he had mystical depth and inward experience as we have seen, and he possessed the prophetic power of vision and forereach which makes him often seem far in advance of his time; but these dynamic traits were more than overbalanced by his fundamentally conservative disposition and by his determination not to go faster or farther than he could carry Germany, especially the nobility, with him.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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We didn't overbalance, but we did end up veering around a bit to stay upright.
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Sum-ranking fails to give sufficient salience to the worth of each person: it in effect permits one person's large misery to be overbalanced by small benefits to a large number of others.
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This torpor of the general system remains, till the accumulation of the sensorial power of association has increased the associability so much as to overbalance the defect of the excitement of association; then the torpor ceases, and if the first affected part has recovered its activity the other parts are all thrown into excess of action by their increased associability, and the hot fit of fever is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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However, he overbalanced and ended up on both knees.
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She overbalanced and fell forwards, instinctively curling into a rolling ball.
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Dana was the thorough-going type of man, not overbalanced and erratic, without quirk or quibble of temperament.
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
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He overbalanced and fell into the window display, bringing down the rest of the glass.
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 Initially designed to create an all-star JLA, it quickly became overbalanced, with 14 active members (one of whom, Geo-Force, was never seen to join the team and never seen to quit it, and still somehow ranks as an active member.)
Review: Justice League Double Feature! | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Heart-high, I say, my rapier entered Pasquini's side on the right, but it did not emerge, on the left, for, well-nigh through him, it met a rib (oh, man-killing is butcher's work!) with such a will that the forcing overbalanced him, so that he fell part backward and part sidewise to the ground.
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Then a voice called, `If you lean out any further you'll overbalance, and I'm not sure I'd be able to catch you.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Aaron's fury, in fact, is so bristling and alive that it threatens to overbalance the novel.
Great House by Nicole Krauss – review
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy.
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Heart-high, I say, my rapier entered Pasquini's side on the right, but it did not emerge, on the left, for, well-nigh through him, it met a rib (oh, man-killing is butcher's work!) with such a will that the forcing overbalanced him, so that he fell part backward and part sidewise to the ground.
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I managed to sit down a little heavily into a canvas director's chair, causing me to overbalance and topple over backward.
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On more than one occasion, Katy nearly overbalanced while brushing cobwebs from her face.
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With a thudding heart, I took a few steps forward and then overbalanced.
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The ladder overbalanced on top of her.
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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.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Hyde shifted his weight and felt himself teeter forward, beginning to overbalance.
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In a balancing test, the thumb on the scales can overbalance anything.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?
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He could vault over a much smaller opponent without causing his victim to overbalance and fall.
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He pulled himself inside, then overbalanced and landed head-first on the floor.
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In addition, the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high.
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It appears he swung his legs over the wall and overbalanced, and was unaware there was a sheer drop at the other side.
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She felt herself start to slip from the branch, leaned back, and overbalanced.
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Then a voice called, `If you lean out any further you'll overbalance, and I'm not sure I'd be able to catch you.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Panic and fear flashed in his eyes with the understanding that the slightest movement could cause him to overbalance.
BETTER THAN THIS
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When it appears to the untutored eye that any movement of the trailer would cause the whole slippery cargo to overbalance, it is re-hitched to the tractor which, grumbling and snorting, makes its laborious way back up the slope from the beach.
Country diary: South Uist
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We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
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While doing so he overbalanced, toppling 22 feet to the ground below.
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It came free in a sudden rush and he felt himself overbalance.
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He hopped off the last few feet and nearly overbalanced.
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Phrenologically the Indian allows his alimentiveness to overbalance his group of organs which show veneration, benevolence, fondness for society, fêtes champêtres, etc., hope, love of study, fondness for agriculture, an unbridled passion for toil, etc.
Comic History of the United States
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Unfortunately, when he got back up, he overbalanced and fell forward, headbutting me in the nose!
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Hyde shifted his weight and felt himself teeter forward, beginning to overbalance.
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Screaming, she sat up quickly, overbalanced, and fell out of the tree on to the wet ground.
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Halfway along the wall he overbalanced and fell.
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The destroyer overbalanced and crashed into the ditch.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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She overbalanced hard into the rim of a fountain with a thump that echoed dully, and then lurched upright again, landing a wild punch on his shoulder.
And the thought becomes a memory
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Her sudden bolt as he had been about to catch her had caused Father to overbalance and fall in the dirt.
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Their meagre physical experiences, plus their meagre intellectual experiences, made a negative sum so vast that it overbalanced their wholesome morality and healthful sports.
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