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How to use top-heavy in a sentence

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Eventually that dense tangle will get worse, causing a top-heavy tree that can break under heavy snow or in high wind.
It is part of a restructuring of staff, which for the number of children at the school, was felt to be too top-heavy at senior level.
We wanted a roomy interior and the benefits of a high driving position, but we did not want to make the car look top-heavy.
Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs.
Stake and support dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums and other top-heavy border plants.
Many have suffered for being perceived as part of big, top-heavy conglomerates instead of nimble, young start-ups.
She's a top-heavy temptress whose well-enhanced front end gets the lion's share of the amorous attention.
This has grown into tall stemmy shrubs, but not yet into mature top-heavy trees.
They say that Carroll sees the firm as top-heavy with lawyers and accountants.
It handles brilliantly thanks to the high, wide handlebars, though it is top-heavy at lower speed.
The record player is an old Victrola, with the railway-spike needle and a big top-heavy sound-horn, or whatever they're called.
They became top-heavy and turned over in the water, unable to right themselves.
The trucks looked top-heavy, and on any journey one was sure to see at least one fallen on its side, its cargo spilling onto the road.
The history of the decline of civilizations is not one of inadequate powers to tax, but of top-heavy parasitic bureaucracies.
Other buildings lurched under top-heavy weight as key supports on the first floors had been torn out.
Imagine then, the situation of the Ranger's crew, with a top-heavy and crank ship under their feet.
The Director-General remarked that it would take some time to correct the top-heavy staffing table in the Secretariat.
The Committee noted that this would result in a top-heavy structure that might be anomalous with the usual practice in the Court.
The report is also critical of a top-heavy agenda, poor coordination and irreconcilable priorities.
As armies shrank, their officer corps became grossly top-heavy and this itself created an obstacle to reform.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is so aggravatingly shallow, so infernally hot to hold, and so top-heavy.
And your skull will be so top-heavy with prudence, that it will be difficult for you to keep on your feet.
Like most overgrown creatures he was top-heavy and lethargic and very humble-minded.
I must have a coachman with a top-heavy wig, and horses so big that they frighten me.
The top-heavy youth closed his magazine and unlocked a brain-cell.
He restricted the ballot to the propertied class, balanced his power on too narrow a base, and it became top-heavy.
Why was George to fool about all day, and leave us to lug this lumbering old top-heavy barge up and down the river by ourselves to meet him?
It would have required an experienced man to keep the top-heavy sled upright, and Hal was not such a man.
It was almost a miracle that the top-heavy sled did not upset.
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position.
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