How to Use counterweight in a Sentence

counterweight

noun
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  • The crane has a heavy counterweight on the back.
  • The soundscape functions as a counterweight to some of the bleaker scenes.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The 16-pound clock is fitted with a heavy aluminum base that acts as a counterweight.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the same time, Biden has sought to deepen ties in Asia as a counterweight to China's growing influence.
    — Chris Megerian, ajc, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Records should spin smoothly, so pay attention to the cartridge and counterweight.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • They are poised at the ends by 18k gold counterweight, which also overlap, for an even more dramatic show of movement on the dial.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
  • National Review is here to keep tabs on all this, to call it out, and to provide an important counterweight.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Now his potential return serves as a counterweight to the news that running back Darrell Henderson Jr. (knee) is out for the year.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Even then, the probability of being a counterweight to Google is small.
    — Rachel Metz, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In earlier tellings of this story, the mother of the bride was little more than a calm counterweight to her husband’s dramatics.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
  • At one point during that event, Murdoch said that the network believes its job now is to serve as a counterweight to the Biden administration.
    — Andy Meek, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The upstairs dance floor was mostly empty — a mournful counterweight to when the fire marshal was a zealous fixture and lines wrapped around the block for secret guests like Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu.
    — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • So the coincidental release of Morrissey’s song acts as a counterweight to the half-baked ideas in Five Nights at Freddy’s.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Gantz's more moderate party at times acts as a counterweight.
    — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • It was identified in the photos by its muzzle counterweight.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In a perfect world, the party out of power would serve the public interest as an effective counterweight to the policies of the party in power.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The most poignant counterweight is provided by the words of John’s father, Patrick, from a letter written to the filmmakers (also read by an actor, David Shih).
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Indeed, Stringfellow has a lush, romantic style that’s often the only counterweight to the grim details of her story.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Anyway, if one part of The Red Arrow is dealing with something that can teach you great lessons and change your sense of the world and life, but most people are going to scoff at it, then physics provides a counterweight.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Jan. 2023

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