top-heavy
Example Sentences
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Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
It’s also a top-heavy draft, with a ton of depth in the first round and no clear first overall pick.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
He initiated an antigraft purge and dismantled the military’s top-heavy administrative fiefs in favor of centralized, joint-combat theater commands that report directly to the Central Military Commission, which he leads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Sometimes criticized as a top-heavy league, the Big Ten will cap its season with a showdown between its two undisputed heavyweights: No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
They were top-heavy, blunt-nosed ambulances, painted gray and built like moving-vans.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
