Sentence examples for overbalancing from inspiring English sources

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overbalancing

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Present participle of overbalance

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest 4.28am GMT 50th over: Australia 143-1 (Rogers 61 Watson 50) Anderson back on, and a bit of chat already with Watson as a ball has the batsman lunging forward and nearly overbalancing.

"As they ran after people, Blair fell; I think he was pushed with the shield, as he was overbalancing the other hit him on the head".

Before he had finished overbalancing towards the off side, Harper had stopped the drive and, in one movement, thrown the ball whence it came.

"Will you just look at him, staring off into the distance with those big sad eyes, occasionally tottering and overbalancing, wandering haughtily across some of the finest greenswards that this great land has to offer.

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OSBERT SITWELL.By Philip Ziegler.Chatto; 460 pages; £25HE LOOKED like an ostrich: "He had the same slightly ponderous dignity and air of one who might suddenly overbalance and tip forwards".

He had been hired, he reasoned, because of his known courage, and he trusted that to overbalance minor irregularities.

Rudy's paper clip had overbalanced him.

"The market is overbalanced," said Mr. Naimi, who put Saudi oil production at 9.125 million barrels a day in February and 8.292 million barrels a day in March.

This possibility is more than overbalanced by difficulties faced by the rest of the so-called Piigs (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain), all of whom face similar issues with high budget deficits and an inability to compete with Germany.

Video footage from a rally in Lahore showed Mr. Khan falling about 15 feet to the ground, head first, after supporters standing alongside him apparently overbalanced as a forklift hoisted them onto the stage.

At the edge of the boat, two men overbalanced, fell into the water, and drowned.

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