off-balance
Example Sentences
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On “The Bear,” his last guest star role, Albert Schnur knocks our trust off balance by swooping into Ebra’s life, expecting to find disorganization, and enthusiastically respecting that Ebra has his act together.
From Salon
He repeatedly and smartly got Pasadena players off balance and fouling with pump fakes.
From Los Angeles Times
Formally and dramatically, the movie has poise, which only strengthens its depiction of girls thrown off balance by growing up.
The breeze is just a little too strong, sometimes knocking me off balance or stealing my breath away.
From Literature
Because of the interconnectedness of an ecosystem, when any species is thrown off balance, the whole system is weakened and a chain reaction of failures is set in motion.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
