How to Use counterweight in a Sentence

counterweight

noun

• The crane has a heavy counterweight on the back.
• As the cab slowly descends around the fourth floor, the counterweights shoot up past it along the walls.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2019
• The soundscape functions as a counterweight to some of the bleaker scenes.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
• But even his most solemn works are balanced with a counterweight of hope.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 May 2021
• When the wind pushes one way, the counterweight swings the other, keeping floors and stemware still.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 June 2021
• The 16-pound clock is fitted with a heavy aluminum base that acts as a counterweight.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2021
• An identical sphere on the other end of the rod acts as a counterweight.
  — Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2021
• One of our doors -- between the carport and the main house -- has a bunch of nautical cork discs in a rope net and is the counterweight for the door.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 17 Oct. 2021
• The roadbed swings upward and is balanced by a counterweight.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
• The counterweight that anchors the cable in space would have to weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds.
  — Colin Stuart, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• During the work, crews will grease the counterweight cables and the bridge will be open for extended amounts of time.
  — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2018
• The provision serves as a sort of counterweight, meant to help pay for the rest of the legislation.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• At the same time, some of the biggest companies in the world stepped up to provide a business counterweight to oil and gas.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Ronald Northern picked up a large rock, planning to use it as a counterweight to keep a tarp from blowing away in the wind.
  — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
• With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
• The British wanted a big geographical bloc in the region to match that of the French, to act as a counterweight.
  — John Broich, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
• Being a Duck doesn’t mean as much without having the Beavers as a pesky counterweight.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
• Putin and Xi used their meeting to project themselves as a counterweight to the United States and its allies.
  — Tim Sullivan, ajc, 5 Feb. 2022
• The weighted base makes this one of the most stable iPad stands on the market, with more than two pounds of counterweight to hold even the largest iPad models in place.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• And with the risk of rising rates, commodities are filling in as a counterweight for stocks.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Without the counterweight of a heavy rail, the exhaust plume from the launching MAV could kick the entire platform up into the air to strike the rocket.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
• As a counterweight to the grim scenes, the film’s center features the humanity of Mr. Kim and the family.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
• Shouldn’t Democrats have a counterweight against their own brand of extremism?
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• Harrison, Antone and about eight others made the two-hour drive to serve as a counterweight.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the realm of politics, there is more Mexico can do to serve as a counterweight to Trump’s discourse.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
• Democrats cast the bill as a counterweight to state-level efforts to restrict voting.
  — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• In 1974 a train slammed into the counterweight of a vertical lift bridge, when the bridge tender was unable to alert the engineer that the span was up.
  — cleveland, 21 July 2022
• The Port of New Orleans, which manages the bridge, plans to raise the bridge a bit to replace worn counterweight guide rollers, according to the mayor's office.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• But the threat of policy changes in Washington, D.C., could act as a counterweight.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• All the music that surrounds Simpson’s voice is rich and dynamic, filled with moments of genuine musical delight that act as a kind of counterweight.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024