How to Use counteract in a Sentence

counteract

verb

• The drug will counteract the poison.
• For example, if the car turns right the dots will float across to the left to counteract the motion of the car.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• The crunchy peanuts and a sprinkle of fleur de sel counteract the sweetness of the caramel, which acts as a binder.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The only way to counteract that is to try and find a few hours in the day to make sure to spend a few hours out of AC.
  — Jason Thomas Gordon, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
• Again, the goal is to balance and counteract the saltiness, not make the gravy sweet.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• Whenever the Dodgers threw a punch, the Braves found a way to counteract it.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
• And thus there's not much that can be done to counteract those price pressures.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• To counteract the wind, the Patriots threw the ball only three times all game.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• To counteract this effect, the ship has to be steered at an angle.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• The strategy aimed in part to counteract the risk of music leaks.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• All through the night, Pembridge and his team slowly angled into the waves to try and counteract the impact of the wind.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• The best way to counteract mindless scrolling is with mindful scrolling.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
• This is a good thing, as this device helps to counteract the effect of the weight of your breasts pulling your chest and front side forward, Smith says.
  — Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• This could counteract the savings that the reforms are meant to create.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the end, these two effects counteract and produce a zero field.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
• And Ukraine is maybe the only state in our part of the world which in all these ten years has been trying to counteract this negative trend.
  — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• Once again, the room has a pop of color with green seating counteracting the simple black and white features of the home.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• With one foot back, the upward-pushing force from the floor would counteract the rotation of the other two forces.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2023
• Deep breathing is one way to help counteract the stress response and allow your body and mind to feel more relaxed.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 26 July 2021
• The small space doesn’t allow for a retractable roof, but the A’s are hoping to counteract that with the large window facing the strip beyond the outfield.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
• Many patients were in need of naloxone, used to counteract the effects of opioids.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2021
• Older skiers can counteract the effects with two hard and fast rules: Be willing to train and know your limits on the slopes.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2023
• The rise of things like open streets and cycling isn’t an equal-but-opposite force that can counteract the increase in driving.
  — Doug Gordon, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
• The bill’s passage means there’s more for taxpayers to know, both to counteract recent wild claims and to prepare for what’s ahead.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• The team also gave the animal a drug to keep it sleeping and another later to counteract the effects of the first.
  — Laura Ungar, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Meta will counteract on the grounds that promotion is, at the end of the day, content, predicts Fordham’s Rashbaum.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• One of the things that had been shown to counteract childhood trauma and increase the chances of resiliency was if a child had at least one adult who looked out for them.
  — Diana Marcumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• One way to help counteract this is through integrity tests.
  — Eric Friedman, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Others at the club would counteract that view, insisting that people understand what Ratcliffe is trying to do and why.
  — Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
• Magnesium may reduce blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels and counteracting damage to them.
  — Cathy Nelson, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025