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Example sentences for "balance"

Lexicographically close words:
baksheesh; bakshish; bal; baladan; balai; balanced; balancer; balances; balancing; balas
  1. Knowing your natural verbosity, I should say that it would take you just about half that time, which will leave me the balance for my own few remarks.

  2. Then, as she regained her balance and started forward, it tightened and drew her suddenly to him in a passionate, crushing embrace.

  3. The understanding swayed him between pity and contempt and left the balance of an amused smile in his eyes.

  4. The conflict was sharp; it lasted till day broke, when the balance between the belligerents seemed so equal that both parties might have claimed the victory.

  5. The £5,000 he supposed her likely one day to inherit were not to be weighed in the balance against Miss Keeldar's estate and hall.

  6. What is that electricity they speak of, whose changes make us well or ill, whose lack or excess blasts, whose even balance revives?

  7. As is well known, the doctrine is that God thus called Abraham and the Jewish nation apart from all the balance of the human race, that thru them He might ultimately send his son into the world to save the race from sin and hell.

  8. Then the great mass of "God's chosen people" are now in hell; for they did not believe rightly; and all the balance of the world is there because they never heard of such a promise and hence did not believe at all!

  9. All the balance of mankind, including all Jews and nine-tenths of the balance of mankind are irretrievably lost.

  10. All the balance of mankind were utterly and irretrievably lost, both wicked and apostate Jews and all Gentiles.

  11. All the balance of mankind must be lost forever.

  12. If it is due to the balance of kan, fate being against him, the case is hopeless.

  13. The Shans in the north held the balance of power, and may have agreed to the subordination of Burma to China, as the Chinese have always claimed.

  14. We have seen how its adherents craftily seek to evade the precepts and commandments of their "law," so far as possible; and then to balance their evil doings by works of merit.

  15. I cannot resist force, but I trust you will give the matter a second thought; for in a well-ordered city they do not expel a man who has committed no crimes, and has a balance of a hundred thousand francs at the bank.

  16. Sleep was the only thing which would restore the balance of my constitution.

  17. My adversary might have abandoned the stake and still found himself with a balance to the good, but avarice rather than pride prevented his doing so.

  18. I dressed myself in haste, and left the town by the first road that came in my way, and I walked fast for two hours with the intention of tiring myself, and of thus readjusting the balance between mind and body.

  19. We shall consider now a female pituitocentric who presents the strangest contrasts in physique, physiognomy, conduct and character, dependent upon a variation in the balance between the two portions of the pituitary.

  20. Among them as commanders of growth, development and normal function, it holds the balance of power.

  21. But under stress and strain the balance is upset.

  22. There should be a stable balance between the various endocrines, the stability expressing itself in what we are pleased to call the normal.

  23. That is, a defect in the chain of co-operation, balance and compensation among the internal secretions is the basis for the weakness of the nervous system the term neurasthenia is supposed to explain, actually only names.

  24. In a good many women, nervous and mental phenomena herald the expected menstruation because of a complete upset of the balance between the internal secretions, with resulting disturbance of the nervous system.

  25. Proper balance between the thymus and pituitary will permit the eruption of the teeth within the normal time limits, both the milk teeth and the permanent teeth.

  26. There should also be a balance between the antagonistic elements in the same gland; for instance, the pituitary.

  27. It meant a most delicate balance between his ante-pituitary, post-pituitary, adrenals and thyroid.

  28. The normal, as the perfect or nearly perfect balance of forces in the organism, at any given moment, emerges as a more definite and real concept than that which would abstract it from a curve of variations.

  29. There is some disturbance of the lime balance with an increased excitability of the vegetative nervous system.

  30. This masculine element causes a rearrangement of the balance of power between the endocrines towards the side of masculinity.

  31. The result of such a reaction as a whole tends to balance the disturbance of energy, so as to maintain or restore the equilibrium, or sense of harmony and comfort, when consciousness again disappears.

  32. The teeth thus furnish a good deal of information concerning the distribution of the balance of power among the hormones.

  33. A number of them have their pituitary balance upset then, with an overtopping of the ante-pituitary by the post-pituitary.

  34. Already, moreover, there have been signs of a reaction against the extreme, and the wheel is coming to an artistic balance again.

  35. Few have come as near the true balance as Milton at his best.

  36. Similarly in "If I were a dead leaf," the peculiar rhythm is to be explained as a balance of pitch against stress.

  37. The poet's skill lies largely in preserving a balance of the artistic principles of variety in uniformity and uniformity in variety.

  38. Douglas, in large part, and Spenser pretty fully, adopted and preserved this unfettered movement, though the former anticipates here and there the neat balance of the Popian couplet.

  39. I will get even with the pair of them, if it takes me the balance of my life," said Leroy Crutcher to the group of hackmen, after Bud Harper and the young woman had driven away.

  40. But had he nothing to counter-balance these pangs of fear and shame, these manifold dark misgivings?

  41. It is the worst species of taxation, for it does not give to the foreign country all that it takes away from the home country, the balance of loss being made up by the less advantageous distribution of the general capital.

  42. In the first case he would have a balance of 480l.

  43. We come to you for medical advice and remedies, and we'll strike a balance somehow.

  44. If I had spent less than I received last Saturday, then there was a balance in my favor, and something was there all ready to add to my new ten cents.

  45. The envelope lay between them--but out of his own reach and that spelled the wavering balance of suspense.

  46. The result is an administration that is not comparable to the single head with both qualifications and an even balance in both spheres.

  47. The engineer must balance his judgments by the immediate outlook of the industrial weather.

  48. When two bureaus exist, the technical lacks that balance of commercial purpose which it should have.

  49. After organization through these and other agencies, the lack of balance in the leaders often makes for injustice in demands, and for violence to obtain them and disregard of agreements entered upon.

  50. Always a careful balance must be cast as to the value of the ore left, and as to the cost of a substitute, because every ore-pillar can be removed at some outlay.

  51. The more numerous the ore-passes, the less the lateral shoveling, but as passes cost money for construction and for repair, there is a nice economic balance in their frequency.

  52. The balance sheet; that is, the assets and liabilities statement.

  53. The use of tail-ropes or balance weights to compensate the increasing weight of the descending rope.

  54. Likewise must come the experience in technical work which gives balance to theoretical training.

  55. They always kept a good balance in hand because of the Secretary's salary and the rent of the offices.

  56. All the details were of course duly set forth in the Report and Balance Sheet at the annual meetings.

  57. The Indian fighters of the West knew little how the scales trembled in the balance for the weak young government of the United States of America, lately come into place as an independent power.

  58. We are informed that during the last year the balance of trade in favor of the United States was something like seven hundred millions of dollars.

  59. Eruptions increased in frequency with winter, fifty-six occurring during the balance of the year.

  60. These movements far below the surface shifted the surface balance and became one of many complicated and little known causes impelling the crust here to slowly rise and there to slowly fall.

  61. After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.

  62. This it was that ruled in his soul, and kept it grandly self-possessed, so that the terrible provocation of the animal pain was too slight to disturb the equal balance of his nature.

  63. It is therefore here, as ever, the wisest plan to hold the balance between the two opinions, and thus reach with greater certainty the middle line of truth.

  64. Squire Hudson had agreed to give her back on payment of the balance due, with accrued interest; but neither he nor Mark Nelson expected that such an offer would be made.

  65. We must not forget that he was entitled to some security for the balance of interest I owe him," said the farmer.

  66. Will you give me two months to pay the balance of interest?

  67. Since, then, it will occasion you no inconvenience, I ask you as a favor that you will let the balance rest for two months.

  68. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life.

  69. You can verify the totals at leisure, but you will see it leaves a balance due me," he said.

  70. I have been wondering whether you would feel inclined to contest his claim for the balance of the debt," he said.

  71. I sold the cattle in Winnipeg for excellent prices, and deducting my own share of the proceeds, took the first train westward to visit Lane, and paid him down three-fourths of the balance of the loan.

  72. He entered proceedings to claim the few head of cattle for balance of the twice-paid debt.

  73. Here is the latest balance sheet, and I presume you are not anxious to see a continuance of that dividend wrung out of your friends on the prairie.

  74. She came of a passionate race; but there had also been a signal lack of balance in her father's temperament, and perhaps it was this very strain of wildness which had made her singing a success.

  75. Lane, who won't wait any longer, is foreclosing, and he'll fix things so there will be no balance left.

  76. The last bushel of grain had been threshed and sold, and the balance of my debt to Lane, with every surcharge his ingenuity could invent, wiped out.

  77. Behold, the Balance in the sky Swift on the wintry scale inclines: To earthy caves the Dryads fly, And the bare pastures Pan resigns.

  78. And as it is contrary to experience for miracles to be true, but not contrary to experience for testimony to be false, the balance of probability must always be against the miracle.

  79. Can an ordinary man be expected to ponder over arguments, objections, and counter-arguments by the dozen, even supposing the balance of probability to be in favour of the Religion?

  80. There was no trouble on the score of caste, both families being soodra; otherwise, the sensitive social balance would have had to be adjusted by the payment of a sum of money.

  81. But it is nature's way to have preserved a proper balance between the abilities of the two species, and thus between their populations.

  82. This balance (a rather delicate one) has probably been upset to some extent by the advent of civilized man with his devices to the Barren Grounds.

  83. When the landing was completed I returned with the transports to Paducah to hasten up the balance of the troops.

  84. There were extensive saw-mills engaged in preparing this lumber for the San Francisco market, and sailing vessels, used in getting it to market, furnished the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world.

  85. I thought the steamers carrying Nelson's division would be useful in ferrying the balance of Buell's forces across.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; account; adjust; adjustment; afterglow; aplomb; arrangement; assets; assimilate; assurance; atmosphere; attune; audit; average; balance; ballast; beauty; bonus; book; budget; butt; cancel; capital; capitalization; capitalize; carry; center; chaff; check; color; communion; community; compare; comparison; compensate; composition; confidence; conformity; confront; congruity; consideration; consistency; constancy; contrast; cool; coordinate; correspond; correspondence; counteract; counterbalance; countervail; counterweight; credit; damp; debate; debit; debris; deficit; deliberate; demonstrate; demur; design; detritus; difference; discrepancy; ditto; dividend; docket; draw; end; enter; equal; equality; equalize; equanimity; equate; equation; equilibrium; equipoise; equity; equivalence; equivalent; euphony; even; evenness; exchequer; extra; falter; fear; filings; finances; finish; firm; fit; flatten; footing; fossil; freeze; fund; funds; generality; gratuity; grouping; gyroscope; harmonize; harmony; heel; heft; hesitate; hold; holdings; hover; husk; identity; immobilize; instrument; integrate; inventory; jib; justice; keep; keeping; knot; leavings; leftover; level; liken; likeness; line; log; lucidity; margin; match; means; measure; median; mediocrity; medium; middle; minute; modulate; money; mutuality; nerve; net; neutralize; norm; normal; normality; note; offset; oppose; order; outweigh; overhaul; overplus; overrun; overset; oversupply; par; parallel; parallelism; paring; parity; pause; perspective; plus; pocket; poise; polarity; ponder; pool; possession; post; practicality; property; proportion; prove; purse; rag; ratio; rationality; reach; reason; reciprocation; reciprocity; reckoning; recompense; recover; redeem; refuse; regularity; regularize; regulate; regulation; reimburse; relate; relativity; reliability; relics; remain; remainder; remains; remnant; repay; reserves; residue; resource; resources; rest; restraint; retain; retreat; rhythm; rival; roach; rubbish; ruin; rule; rump; run; sanity; savings; sawdust; scale; score; scouring; scrap; scruple; security; sense; senses; settle; shading; shadow; shaving; shy; similarity; smooth; sobriety; solidity; soundness; spare; square; stabilize; stabilizer; standardize; steady; stereotype; stick; stickle; strain; straw; stubble; stump; substance; substantiality; supply; surplus; survival; sweepings; symmetry; tally; technique; teeter; temper; term; tie; tip; tone; touch; trace; transfix; treasure; treatment; uniformity; value; verify; vestige; waste; weigh; weight; wherewithal; wit; yield