How to Use counterweight in a Sentence

counterweight

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  • The crane has a heavy counterweight on the back.
  • This means the counterweight weighed in the neighborhood of 15 tons.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • This means the counterweight weighed in the neighborhood of 15 tons.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • Droste’s productions have also served as a counterweight to rising populist sentiments.
    — Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
  • Typically, trebuchets of this size have a counterweight 100 times bigger than the projectile.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • Typically, trebuchets of this size have a counterweight 100 times bigger than the projectile.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • On the campaign trail, Pence was the perfect counterweight to Trump: even-keeled where his boss is erratic, and a known quantity on Capitol Hill.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2017
  • On the campaign trail, Pence was the perfect counterweight to Trump: even-keeled where his boss is erratic, and a known quantity on Capitol Hill.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2017
  • Edward ordered the lead roofs from churches as far away as St. Andrews and Perth removed and melted down to provide counterweights for the trebuchets' throwing arms.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • As the cab slowly descends around the fourth floor, the counterweights shoot up past it along the walls.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], 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
  • The counterweight that anchors the cable in space would have to weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds.
    — Colin Stuart, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • During the work, crews will grease the counterweight cables and the bridge will be open for extended amounts of time.
    — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2018
  • The provision serves as a sort of counterweight, meant to help pay for the rest of the legislation.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • The measures are meant to serve as a counterweight to an increasingly assertive China.
    — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024

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