Get Free Checker

counterbalanced

[ US /ˌkaʊntɝˈbæɫənst/ ]
[ UK /kˈa‍ʊntəbˌælənst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another

How To Use counterbalanced In A Sentence

  • The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
  • Some glorious highs are counterbalanced by a few truly grating tracks and a bunch of middle-of-the-road filler, but that's true of any compilation.
  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
  • It's naturally "counterbalanced" by their one Democrat even more concerned for the center than Rosen or Bai, Noah Feldman on differences among orthodox Jews. Quote Of The Day
  • Anything which takes away from any freedom must be counterbalanced by benefit. Nick Joy: Why Genetically Modified Salmon Affects My Rights as a Citizen
  • They represent the maximum size of possible transactions, assuming that they were not counterbalanced by other transactions in the opposite direction.
  • If love, an enduring human ideal, formed the subject of this show, this ideal was counterbalanced by the weight of inanimate things: stones, earth.
  • The critical examples in the new and old conditions were counterbalanced across subjects.
  • Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced.
  • In the mining district, religious zeal was often counterbalanced by a skeptical, almost mocking, attitude.
View all