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Example sentences for "counterbalances"

Lexicographically close words:
counterattack; counterattacked; counterattacks; counterbalance; counterbalanced; counterbalancing; counterbattery; counterblast; counterchange; counterchanged
  1. The solidarity of interests which they imply counterbalances the separateness of modern affections, and the obligatory sympathy they impose upon us recalls to one a little the patriotism which bore the forced taxes of old days.

  2. If intellectual progress carried with it inferior sociability, it would tend to be eliminated; the world would be to the stupid; it must carry with it something which counterbalances the anti-social tendency.

  3. Their strong attraction for oxygen counterbalances this obstacle.

  4. The condensation of the gas more than counterbalances the expansion of the water; therefore, upon the whole, heat is produced.

  5. The silver pot is in fact hotter to the hand when in contact with it; but it is because its conducting power more than counterbalances its deficiency in regard to radiation.

  6. Not in general; because in most oxyds the positive energy of the metal more than counterbalances the native energy of the oxygen with which it combines.

  7. This loss of the action of the peripheral heart more than counterbalances the temporary relief secured by the paralysis of the vasoconstrictors.

  8. The proximity of countries in which cheap labour predominates counterbalances the minimum demand of white men in these parts.

  9. Each pair of sluices counterbalances the weight of the other pair by being attached to opposite ends of a lever at the top of the gate.

  10. Much less ought it to indulge in them if the temptation consequent on their possession, or fatality incident to their manufacture, more than counterbalances the good done by the effort to obtain them.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counterbalances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.