Words similar to counterpoint
- countering
- counterintelligence
- counterintuitive
- countermeasures
- counteroffensive
- counterpart
- counterparts
- counterparts--but
- counterparts--mainly
- counterparts--on
- counterpoint
- counterpressures
- counterproductive
- counterproliferation
- counterpropaganda
- counterpunch
- counterquestions
- counterrevolutionary
- counters
- counterstaining
Example sentences for: counterpoint
How can you use “counterpoint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Erected as a counterpoint to the rest of the barrio, and as the lead dog in the municipal government’s plans to upgrade this artist’s neighborhood, the stark museum is worth visiting, primarily for architecture buffs.
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Then the counterpoint, the explicit projection of the young woman's company as the harbinger of hope: It is helping over 1 million women, and she, its human face, is tireless in her effort to find a drug that will enable a woman to "climb stairs without fear, stand a little taller."
The books are Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by the University of Maryland's Ira Berlin; Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry, by William and Mary's Philip D. Morgan; and The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity , by Boston University's Jill Lepore.
When 19 th -century composers wanted to be solemn, they invoked the Baroque: Thick counterpoint and a good old passacaglia--variations over a repeating bass--never failed to sound lofty.
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