Example sentences for: counterparts

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

  • Johnson had no trouble finding fairly exact counterparts in his London of the eighteenth century for many of the blights of Juvenal's ancient Rome, but there was really nothing to match the horror of the amateur poetry reading in Trajan's time; the closest analogy Johnson could come up with, an elegant one under the circumstances, is his “female atheist.”

  • I hope this isn't a sign that SLATE will follow the lead of many of its print counterparts by licking every crumb from New York's cultural plate while completely ignoring major events that occur elsewhere.

  • The air strikes marked the climax of an intense 48-hour period in which Berger notified congressional leaders, the principals called their foreign counterparts, and President Clinton flew back from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to address the nation from the Oval Office.

  • Daniel L. Greenberg remembers a negligible difference in the average annual starting pay for poverty lawyers and their counterparts at big Manhattan firms: $6,500 and $7,500, respectively.

  • Note: If most people live another fifty years after college and if college costs a total of more than $100,000, then the additional sex achieved by college students over their high school counterparts is purchased at Heidi Fleiss rates: about $1,000 per.


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