How to Use counterweight in a Sentence

counterweight

noun

• The crane has a heavy counterweight on the back.
• As the cab slowly descends around the fourth floor, the counterweights shoot up past it along the walls.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2019
• The soundscape functions as a counterweight to some of the bleaker scenes.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
• But even his most solemn works are balanced with a counterweight of hope.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 May 2021
• When the wind pushes one way, the counterweight swings the other, keeping floors and stemware still.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 June 2021
• The 16-pound clock is fitted with a heavy aluminum base that acts as a counterweight.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2021
• An identical sphere on the other end of the rod acts as a counterweight.
  — Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 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
• At the same time, some of the biggest companies in the world stepped up to provide a business counterweight to oil and gas.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• 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
• The British wanted a big geographical bloc in the region to match that of the French, to act as a counterweight.
  — John Broich, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
• 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
• And with the risk of rising rates, commodities are filling in as a counterweight for stocks.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• 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
• Harrison, Antone and about eight others made the two-hour drive to serve as a counterweight.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the realm of politics, there is more Mexico can do to serve as a counterweight to Trump’s discourse.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
• 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
• But the threat of policy changes in Washington, D.C., could act as a counterweight.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The state could require more baseload power, which would run all-out all the time and serve as a counterweight to major investments in wind and solar.
  — Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
• That’s part of what made the steady counterweight proposed for this very spot by the artist Steve Locke both powerful and necessary indeed.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Records should spin smoothly, so pay attention to the cartridge and counterweight.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• The rim of the crater casts a shadow that almost perfectly bisects the gaping basin; the inky black is a concentrated counterweight to the wide-open sky.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
• The counterweight to the arguments against FIT21 is cash — the green variety, not the notional type marketed by cryptocurrency firms.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024