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Example sentences for "counterblast"

Lexicographically close words:
counterbalance; counterbalanced; counterbalances; counterbalancing; counterbattery; counterchange; counterchanged; countercheck; counterclaim; counterclockwise
  1. They occur in the Verato secondo, written as a counterblast to De Nores' Apologia,[369].

  2. The counterblast of the church was hot and violent.

  3. The monkish party published as a counterblast Lamentationes obscurorum virorum at Cologne in A.

  4. The Counterblast to Tobacco was first printed in quarto, without name or date, at London, 1616.

  5. The frolic went all over England,'' says Roger North; and the addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the Petitioners.

  6. Now that it had begun to retort in its own effective way, the Government agreed that the best counterblast would be--to wait until it all blew over.

  7. III A doughty, but anonymous, champion jumped into the breach and issued a counterblast to Papon's effort in the shape of a second pamphlet, headed "A Reply.

  8. Harley to write verses on Blenheim as a counterblast to Addison's Campaign.

  9. He seconded the Counterblast against Tobacco of James I.

  10. Consequently some of the brighter spirits have produced magazines of their own, satirical, comic, serious, any and every sort as a counterblast to the school magazine.

  11. Arnold Lunn in his counterblast to this, "The Harrovians," dwelt too distinctly on the reverse side of the picture, on the more drab side of life at school.

  12. Other of our Tory friends are getting up volunteer companies,--a sort of counterblast to our militia battalions.

  13. Just a sort of bragging counterblast to those four regiments of ours at Boston.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counterblast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backfire; boomerang; comeback; counter; counterattack; counterbalance; counterclaim; counterstroke; counterweight; defense; exchange; interchange; rebuttal; reciprocation; recoil; refutation; rejoinder; replication; reply; retort; return; undercurrent