Example sentences for: compensates

How can you use “compensates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There may, for example, be a homologous tetraspanin protein that compensates for the absence of sarcospan in mice, but not in humans.

  • Only when the difference in standing crop between red and blue flowers is so large that it compensates for the reduced detectability of red flowers, will bees start visiting the red patch.

  • Wade can't get on his preadolescent daughter's wavelength and compensates by suing his ex-wife (Mary Beth Hurt) for custody.

  • Inevitably, television can't include much science or scholarly detail, but it compensates with human images that are wholly gripping—both the preserved specimens and the living subjects who talk about the strange conditions that they live with.

  • There is no beach to speak of here, but a very cleverly designed set of pools built into the rocks more than compensates.


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