COUNTERBALANCE in a Sentence
Learn COUNTERBALANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for COUNTERBALANCE, such as:
1. It is commonplace in America to counterbalance a Democratic president with Republicans in the Congress, and vice versa.
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Meanings and Examples of COUNTERBALANCE
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counterbalance
n. equality of distribution
n. a compensating equivalent
Classic Sentence:
1 He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side.
2 It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.
3 And then, after all, I go too fast in my conclusions: for what I yet know, you may be no better than the rest; you may have intolerable defects to counterbalance your few good points.
Example Sentence:
1 It is commonplace in America to counterbalance a Democratic president with Republicans in the Congress, and vice versa.