COUNTERACT in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for COUNTERACT, such as:
1. His cheerfulness will counteract this.
2. Our bodies produce antibodies to counteract disease.
3. Thank God, the operation of the potion is slow, and may be counteracted.
4. The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven.
5. I took it that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some way a counteractant to his grief.
2. Our bodies produce antibodies to counteract disease.
3. Thank God, the operation of the potion is slow, and may be counteracted.
4. The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven.
5. I took it that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some way a counteractant to his grief.
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Meanings and Examples of COUNTERACT
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counteract
v. act in opposition to
v. oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
Classic Sentence:
1 The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven.
2 With this controversy, and with the means he had adopted to counteract this clerical persecution, Cedric found the mind of his friend Athelstane so fully occupied, that it had no room for another idea.
3 His cheerfulness will counteract this.
4 Finding the child more docile and amiable than her sister, the old lady felt it her duty to try and counteract, as far as possible, the bad effects of home freedom and indulgence.
5 She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
6 Not content with misrepresenting the race, the mob-spirit was not to be satisfied until the paper which was doing all it could to counteract this impression was silenced.
7 For to effect like actions, at the same time, in different places, is well-nigh impossible; nor can they be effected at different times, if you would not have one counteract another.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
8 Elinor submitted to the arrangement which counteracted her wishes with less reluctance than she had expected to feel.
9 The quantity of walking exercise I took, was not in this respect attended with its usual consequence, as the disappointment counteracted the fresh air.
10 She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
11 For true valour, tight discipline, and the feeling of security gained by repeated victories, are not to be counteracted by things of no real moment, dismayed by empty terrors, or quelled by a solitary mishap.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
12 As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
13 It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
14 Man, in this earthly life, though he be capable of many evils, is not capable of them all at once, inasmuch as one evil corrects and counteracts another just as one poison frequently corrects another.
15 I took it that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some way a counteractant to his grief.
Example Sentence:
1 The conference concluded that it was up to western societies to change the image of Islam they held and especially to counteract negative images of Islam in the media.
2 Our bodies produce antibodies to counteract disease.
3 Thank God, the operation of the potion is slow, and may be counteracted.