complement
Example Sentences
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But it wasn’t the right green: The upper walls now wear the correct copper-based “verditer” green paint, with the tone of malachite, complemented below the chair rails in a buff color.
Ultimately, if a bigger sandwich gets customers in the door — and those diners complement their purchase with a side of fries and a beverage — then it all works out to a restaurant’s advantage, he said.
From MarketWatch
The revised name reflected their mission to publish new titles “at random” to complement the backlist.
"Our approach complements slow simulations with rapid, reliable predictions, facilitating the systematic exploration of defect-rich regimes," says Prof. Na.
From Science Daily
Such tours continued throughout the 20th century in the United States, Europe, the Soviet Union and China, complementing Japanese diplomacy during the Cold War.
From Barron's
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