countercharge

Example Sentences

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As he helped Alcocer with the countercharge, he said he voiced concerns about the amount of material being loaded into the containment vessel, according to his and Levesque’s interviews with investigators.

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

Charge was met by countercharge and tempers rose high.

From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.