countercharge

Example Sentences

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Alcocer worked on creating a countercharge to detonate the fireworks inside the vessel, according to the inspector general’s report.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”

From Time • Mar. 31, 2014

In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2012

At such moments the French would countercharge, whereupon the Bulgarians would turn and flee.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan