How to Use lopsided in a Sentence

lopsided

adjective
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  • The house had a lopsided porch.
  • They won the game by a lopsided score of 25–3.
  • This looks like one of the most lopsided matchups of the week.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Is the trick to use out the ones with the lopsided yolks for something else?
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The main event was the most lopsided on UFC 273's main card.
    — Mark Long, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The same lopsided trend held true for the 99 races for Ohio House seats.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Yes, that’s a lopsided score in favor of the team that has lost eight of the last night in the series.
    — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The 22-point loss was their second-most lopsided on the road.
    — Eric Olson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The Lions opened a lopsided 32-13 gap over the Eagles at the half.
    — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The resemblance — from the squint to the lopsided smile — is striking.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Or fine, not all of it: just the essential stuff, the not lopsided stuff.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The lead stretched to as many as 38 points in the second half in the state’s most lopsided Class 4A final.
    — Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • That is still the most points a team has scored in the Super Bowl and the most lopsided win in the game’s history.
    — Tim Casey, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • New Orleans was on the wrong end of a lopsided loss in first meeting.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • With that there’ll be some teething pains, some lopsided score lines.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • The 6-3 guard scored eight points in 15 minutes of a lopsided affair.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Could be headed to the most lopsided score in this series.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Games were won and lost in lopsided starts and that held true again Sunday.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2022
  • The Ohio statehouse has grown only more lopsided in the past decade.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The score would have been more lopsided if the Dodgers’ $700-million man had delivered in the clutch.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Cobb played sparingly in the second half of that game and most others in 2021 due to the lopsided scores.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 1 July 2022
  • The victory at Utah was as close as the win at Colorado was lopsided.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Since The Talk, the Padres have scored to the lopsided tune of 26-4 through the five-game win streak leading into the Cardinals’ finale.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Despite the lopsided scoreline, Kerr was not worried by the defeat and was keen for his squad to move on.
    — Sam Joseph, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Sunday’s game was the most lopsided of the Falcons’ five this season.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The Grizzly Cubs opened a lopsided 21-3 gap over the Bulldogs at halftime.
    — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Do a lopsided pushup, keeping core engaged and hips stable, then roll the ball from right hand to left.
    — Women's Health, 7 June 2023
  • The Bucks pulled ahead for good four minutes into the game and rolled to their most lopsided victory of the season.
    — Steve Megargee, ajc, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The outcomes might be slightly lopsided, but Gale and Shapley’s strategy can’t be beat.
    — Max Springer, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But since then have come four more lopsided losses, including a 40-7 blowout against Washington on Sunday.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2024

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