How to Use counteract in a Sentence

counteract

verb

• The drug will counteract the poison.
• For example, if the car turns right the dots will float across to the left to counteract the motion of the car.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• The crunchy peanuts and a sprinkle of fleur de sel counteract the sweetness of the caramel, which acts as a binder.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The only way to counteract that is to try and find a few hours in the day to make sure to spend a few hours out of AC.
  — Jason Thomas Gordon, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
• Again, the goal is to balance and counteract the saltiness, not make the gravy sweet.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• Whenever the Dodgers threw a punch, the Braves found a way to counteract it.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
• Their isolation has been at the top of our minds, and how to counteract that.
  — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2020
• To counteract this, don’t wait for someone else to step in — take the lead and reach out yourself.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
• To counteract, throw a pinch over your left shoulder to ward off evil.
  — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Dec. 2024
• And thus there's not much that can be done to counteract those price pressures.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• To counteract the wind, the Patriots threw the ball only three times all game.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• To counteract this effect, the ship has to be steered at an angle.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Lions can counteract this by playing through the pressure on the ground.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• The strategy aimed in part to counteract the risk of music leaks.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• The muscles need to counteract this weight by locking down to hold your head up.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2020
• All through the night, Pembridge and his team slowly angled into the waves to try and counteract the impact of the wind.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• So there's a lot of new spending that has to be counteracted.
  — / Cbs News, CBS News, 1 June 2025
• The best way to counteract mindless scrolling is with mindful scrolling.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
• Through sheer force of effort, Auburn was able to counteract many of its mistakes.
  — Giana Han, al, 5 Dec. 2020
• It’s meant to help the skin and muscles relax to counteract the signs of aging by smoothing folds and wrinkles.
  — Enrica Petraglia, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
• This is a good thing, as this device helps to counteract the effect of the weight of your breasts pulling your chest and front side forward, Smith says.
  — Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• Twists open up the upper back and counteract slumped posture.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 May 2020
• As a bonus, these come complete with arch support to help counteract the higher heel.
  — Mallory Pitts, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• This could counteract the savings that the reforms are meant to create.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the end, these two effects counteract and produce a zero field.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
• And Ukraine is maybe the only state in our part of the world which in all these ten years has been trying to counteract this negative trend.
  — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• With keen radar, managers can counteract these dynamics to keep the team in sync.
  — Marita Decker, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• This helps counteract the numbing feeling of an endless to-do list.
  — Mark Cunningham, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
• Still, the effect may not be pronounced enough to counteract the difference in view.
  — Popular Science, 25 June 2020
• This can create a vicious cycle, as the need to drink more caffeine to counteract the effect arises again and again.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 27 May 2025