The dagger was a well-balanced throwing knife of good steel, stained with a film of dried blood.
I can ill afford to lose so well-balanced a knife as this.
The wide red hat with its heavy tassels seemed precariously balanced on his head.
But they are more than counter-balanced by his beauties: and this is the proper mode of appreciating an original genius.
Lord Lyttelton fancied it could not last long, So balanced a spoon on the tip of his tongue!
If not--" She balanced her machine against herself.
He balanced his machine against the grassy edge of the path and sat down panting.
He was back again, erect and smiling, a small wicker basket balanced on his paws.
The procession filed into the room, Delia and the General, Ellis deferentially holding a tiny white coat, the man in livery bearing a small copper saucepan in which he balanced a white bottle with some difficulty.
He balanced a tin pail carefully between the two crossed sticks in the heart of the fire, and unfolded from a newspaper two wedges of pumpkin-pie.
A soiled and freckled boy, bare from the knees, whistled by the window, jangling a can of bait, his pole balanced prettily on one ragged shoulder.
Miss Arnold balancedlong between my party and that of Lady Maria de Burgh.
I balanced in my mind the improbability of so daring an outrage with the stories which I had heard of elder brothers removed, and wives concealed for ever.
This indulgence, however, was somewhat balanced by the presence of a very different companion.
In front of me I saw a well-grown woman walking with that steady, solid, well-balanced step which I even then knew indicated fleshy limbs, and a fat backside.
She had such a very remarkable steady walk that she scarcely seemed to move, she glided; her feet were so nicely carried forward, and her body so evenly balanced from her hips.
The Chinese possess very long, sharp, well-balanced swords, a single blow of one of which will sever the head from the body.
If the shaft is therefore to revolve stably, this force must be balancedat any instant by the elastic resistance of the shaft to deflexion.
In the case of a string stretched over a smooth surface, but in other respects free from extraneous force, the tensions at the ends of a small element [delta]s must be balanced by the normal reaction of the surface.
When a system of revolving masses is balanced so that the conditions of the preceding section are fulfilled, the centre of gravity of the system lies on the axis of revolution.
If a balanced system of forces be represented by a system of lines, then will every parallel projection of that system of lines represent a balanced system of forces.
In that instant as he grasped Philip's hand in a silence more eloquent than words, every finer instinct of his queerly balanced nature flashed in his face.
It is only three days ago since I gave you fully my view of the situation," she remarked, "you were good enough at the time to admit that it was a remarkably well-balanced one.
Faith, if it could have done any good, it is not I that would have balanced about it!
The human brain is a very delicately balanced organ, my dear aunt, and once it gets ever so slightly out of order one cannot be too careful to avoid risk.
Still holding his thoughts away from the aspect where Maurice's baseness would serve himself, he balancedthat question of the real significance of the baseness.
In our country we have balancedinto harmony the centripetal power of the government, and the centrifugal power of the people: so have national unity of action, and individual variety of action--personal freedom.
With an irresistible simplicity and utter lack of self-consciousness she stood, balanced on the edge of the pool, with the sun embracing her, in a diving attitude, in no hurry to take her dip.
Kenyon got in first, with his long cigarette holder between his teeth and a rakish-looking opera hat balancedover his left eye.
She has heard that Sophocles meant to make a new piece of the same matter, and her balanced judgment, on which Browning insists so often, makes her say, "That is well.
But even stronger than the curiosity was the eager individualism of this time, which extended into every sphere of human thought and action, and only began about 1866 to be balanced by an equally strong tendency towards collectivism.
Other sciences develop some of these forms of skill better than biology does; nevertheless, we shall find that biology furnishes a remarkably balanced opportunity to develop skills of the various kinds.
These escape notice largely because they are balanced against one another in a system of equilibrium which pervades them and gives them the appearance of fixity.
If with his qualities a Russian could be balanced and deductive, and rule his vagrant thoughts, to what height could he not attain!
Probably not; but you've had some more balanced intervening ones, or I should have found you dead with veronal, or some other filthy thing before this, with your highly strung nerves!
You must keep your judgment perfectly balanced and never let it be obscured by prejudice, tradition, custom, or anything but the actual common-sense view of the case.
This disposition is very advantageous, however, and should not be interfered with in the way any corset must interfere, and it greatly reduces the ungainly frontal size and helps to keep the body better balanced (see p.
Instances of the desired child proving to be of the sex "arranged for" by following out some such methods are of comparatively frequent occurrence, but to the scientist are completely counter-balanced by other and negative results.
Now this waste, under the most favourable circumstances, will soon destroy life, unless it is balanced by actual repair.
Taken alone, it shows conclusively that since tobacco first began to be used, its bad effects must have been at least fully balanced by its good effects.
Heavy losses and bad times have been encountered in a few important industries, but these are balanced by unprecedented profits made by a large variety of industries, whether directly or indirectly affected by the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
