How to Use counterbalance in a Sentence

counterbalance

1 of 2 noun

• Spread the floor and use the weight as a counterbalance to find your center at the bottom.
  — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 7 May 2020
• Hold your arms straight out in front of you for counterbalance.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 21 May 2020
• The blend of the cornstarch with lemon juice and vanilla create a nice counterbalance to the richness of the peach slices.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
• That is a counterbalance to the formality of the suits.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Go with a winged cat-eye to create a counterbalance at the top of the face, or try brow-line details to emphasize the eyes.
  — The Good Housekeeping Editors, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2020
• But the counterbalance is that the alliance’s allies rarely want to be seen as being out in the cold on key issues.
  — John Deni, Fortune, 15 July 2023
• The great counterbalance: The Bruins stood No. 1 on the penalty kill: 86.5 percent.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Many vinegars are used to cut through fat, to add sharp counterbalance to oil in a dressing, or to amp up the sour notes in a complex sauce.
  — Clarissa Wei, Bon Appétit, 29 May 2021
• The tonearm needs to have an adjustable counterbalance to allow for fine-tuning so the stylus doesn't scratch the vinyl or skip out of the groove.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• One way to provide this upward-pushing force would be to use a lever with a counterbalance.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• In a draft awash in high-profile teenage prospects, Williams offers a counterbalance.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2022
• The holidays could prove to be the perfect counterbalance to months of solitude.
  — Chronicle Staff Report, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• Will the Sixers and their ultra-big starting five provide a counterbalance to the Clips?
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 6 July 2019
• In both the comic and TV show, Death's charm is an important counterbalance to Dream's gloom.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 July 2022
• Beneath, two Australian pearls add a soft counterbalance to the bright pops of color.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2021
• That would be an ethical good, a small counterbalance against the long record of racial injustice in US health care.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
• As a counterbalance to their harsh day, allow your kids the gentleness of a hug or cuddle.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
• The incorrect counterbalance valve may have been installed in the main lift cylinder.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2020
• The routine of pushing the chair forward in daily life requires the counterbalance of working the pulling muscles along the upper back.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• All in, Drift San José del Cabo is a calming counterbalance to the lively city, despite being located in the heart of it.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2021
• Play up the sporty appearance or counterbalance it by wearing it over a jumpsuit or faux-leather pants.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
• The addition of sea salt adds a good counterbalance to this gluten-free cookie’s sweetness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Some users have rigged up makeshift counterbalance weights for the headset as well, but Facebook recommends against that.
  — Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2020
• Across Verona, a coalition of civic groups gathered as a counterbalance to the World Congress for Families.
  — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
• As this week unfolds, your eagerness to be a team player will act as a stable counterbalance if things get out of hand.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2019
• It was designed as a global counterbalance to the U.S.-led system of alliances.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2022
• The light walls and ceramic tile floor provide a counterbalance.
  — John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 21 Aug. 2019
• But at the time, the ECB was gearing up to start its own purchases, providing markets with a counterbalance.
  — Dimitris Valatsas, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• The passenger pod between the giant wheels acts as their counterbalance to stop the thing from tipping over all the time, which means the pod is constantly moving while driving.
  — David Meyer, Fortune Europe, 2 Nov. 2023
• The passenger pod becomes the counterbalance, moving forward and backward relative to the wheels.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023

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counterbalance

2 of 2 verb

• The author's wry humor counterbalances the book's serious subject matter.
• The Midrash makes a final point: the hatred of the wicked is counterbalanced by the love of the righteous.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 25 June 2018
• The point of this change isn’t purely to buff him or counterbalance the nerfs.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• To counterbalance the strong eye look, the rest of the beauty was more muted.
  — Mélanie Nauche, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2022
• While working on the eighth floor of the tower, builders angled the story to the north to counterbalance the tower's southern drift.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2021
• Amid the gloom there’s been some counterbalancing grace.
  — al, 8 Apr. 2020
• Hardest part of the job The love of being a firefighter is counterbalanced by high levels of stress.
  — Dana Scott, azcentral, 11 May 2020
• The government hopes that talk of a big fiscal boost will counterbalance the gloom.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The ratios was all off—not enough sauce to counterbalance the saltiness and overwhelming volume of the cheese.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 27 Oct. 2023
• The fact that the show is a hit speaks to a hunger for entertainment that counterbalances cruelty and kindness.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2023
• The sliced pear adds an unexpected brightness to the sandwich, counterbalancing the heavy notes of the beef and blue cheese.
  — Daniel Neman, sacbee, 26 June 2018
• At the same time, Biden is attempting to keep the Saudis on his side as a strategic partner who can counterbalance Iran in the region.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2021
• The strips are a bit too plasticky tasting and the very sour sauce, meant to counterbalance the sugar, tastes a little gloppy.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson Food Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• Your concealer should be a shade lighter than your skin tone to counterbalance darkness.
  — April Franzino, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2019
• Along with basil, this herbaceous yet fruity fragrance is also spiked with thyme to counterbalance the citrusy scent of lime.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 11 Dec. 2022
• In the diagram to the right, the arrows indicate which tastes work to counterbalance one another.
  — Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2020
• That counterbalanced a relatively high rate of child and teen deaths, and low birth-weight babies.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al.com, 17 June 2019
• This is when the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere each year is counterbalanced with the same amount removed from the atmosphere.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
• At that stage, many other neurons are still absent, so there’s nothing to mask or counterbalance that strong smell.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• But the move also opens a new front in Beijing’s effort to counterbalance the power of China’s tech giants.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2021
• Sugar also counterbalances the excess salt used to extend the fish’s shelf life.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Over the past 50 years, there has been a concerted effort to counterbalance this tendency.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
• Too often these tried to counterbalance an all-white world by presenting all-Black settings.
  — al, 26 Feb. 2021
• But was that feeling enough to counterbalance all the disadvantages?
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• The snail’s pace—and the ECB’s resumption of net asset purchases 11 months later—helped counterbalance the net sales of securities by the Fed.
  — Dimitris Valatsas, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• The idea is to add three progressive judges to the court, which is a Constitutional remedy, if an extreme one, to counterbalance the right-wingers.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• The humor goes from charcoal to obsidian to coal black, though the gorgeous setting on Dublin's rustic, rocky coast helps counterbalance all the darkness.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• Any reassurance about the chances of the virus making its way here, though, is counterbalanced by unease about what the drop in visitors might mean for the local economy.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• The arena operators have promised to purchase offsets each year to counterbalance all indirect emissions, meaning the carbon cost of each guest’s concert T-shirt, hamburger and Uber ride is accounted for.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Oyelowo’s pure-hearted sincerity is counterbalanced by the supporting performances that surround him.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023

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