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off-balance
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tucker made a spectacular off-balance catch to end the game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Abdur-Rahim missed an off-balance shot and Jelani McCoy grabbed the loose ball.
▪ He dragged her backwards and off-balance, and then kept her moving so that she couldn't recover.
▪ I was off-balance, falling forward, lurching with giant strides, certain that the next step would end in a nosedive.
▪ She was off-balance - nothing she could do to prevent herself from turning towards him as his grip pulled her in.
▪ Simon followed his own miss with an off-balance floater to tie the score at 75-75.
▪ Their lead swelled to 46-41 when Jamar Curry made an off-balance jumper with 17: 06 left.
▪ Unfortunately, Joan catches Victor slightly off-balance and he falls against a wall, bruising his arm slightly.
Wikipedia
Off-Balance

is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Shin Togashi based on the novel Hi-baransu by Naoko Uozumi which won the author the Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature.

Usage examples of "off-balance".

As on each occasion their gazes locked, he felt slightly off-balance, a puzzling phenomenon he neither understood nor liked.

It knocks him off-balance, which is all Gillian needs to rush in close.

They clapped and hollered while Joe rat-a-tat-tatted his feet and collided with Nancy, clip-clopped wobbly-kneed away, wavered off-balance, recovered, and kept on thumping his feet.

Thrown off-balance, stunned by the magical attack, and trapped by the intervening tree, Wulgreth howled in rage and indignation, leaped into the air to crash down on packed dirt, beat his chest like an ape, and hollered his fury.

There was an afterimage of confusion that cut off suddenly, leaving me alone again and off-balance inside my thoughts.

Caught off-balance and unaware, the black clad man fell and was partly pinned by MacDonald, who was working in one fluid motion.

The ship rocked, and the artificial gravity hiccupped enough to send her backpedaling on her heels, off-balance, and slamming into the guardrail.

Tahiri, thrown off-balance, stumbled, her lightsaber blade swinging around toward Bhindi.

After a volley into their rocket-laden trucks had put the Firelords off-balance, Flasher concentrated on the calliopes in firing positions on the lip of the escarpment.

Many were killed, others stunned and others blinded, and when Dagnabbit and Tred led the charge to secure the gate, the off-balanced and confused orcs proved easy prey.

Swords flashed at him, and somehow, even off-balance, he dodged them, but in so doing, fell on his rump.

But the Fragment had positioned three of himself above, by cargo bins that looked strangely off-balance.

As he tried to rise, the dog released the man's leg and went for the right wrist, the main appendage a K-9 patrol dog is trained to clamp down on, and began pulling in any direction possible, trying to keep the suspect off-balance until his human partner arrived.

Small wonder that at the time I sensed my coming forth had disconcerted Akhmim, throwing him off-balance.

Winded, still stumbling off-balance from hurdling across the empty space, Pharaun surely couldn't fend off both of them at once.