overbalancing

Example Sentences

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But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2016

His pack swung suddenly to the side, overbalancing him.

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack

"Ta' my boots off," he grunted, trying to reach his feet and overbalancing.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

The overbalancing magnetic force does not act “contrary to the established course of things,” but simply performs its own functions in full harmony with that course; so of all mysterious events in the vast universe.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen