Sample Sentences for
complement
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complement as in:  the color complements her eyes

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    The color complements her eyes.
    complements = combines well with
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    My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this. [Faber explaining why he designed his communication device]  (source)
    complementing = combining well with
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    Fond of costumes, Sandy appeared wearing a high-altitude climbing suit over her evening dress, complemented by mountaineering boots, crampons, ice ax, and a bandolier of carabiners.  (source)
    complemented = made better
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    All of her clothes, all of her jewelry, all of her signature, brightly patterned scarves seemed to come from somewhere else and complement her unintentionally cool cropped haircut.  (source)
    complement = combine well with
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    I followed Geneva's own footprints down the snowy path and found the outhouse at the end of it. It was a simple one-holer, complemented by the inevitable Sears, Roebuck catalog.  (source)
    complemented = made better or complete
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    He even brought me a gift—a heathery violet turtleneck sweater to wear—and I notice it complements both the blanket and Desi's deep green sweater.  (source)
    complements = goes well with
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    In front of the counter were two people, an obese elderly man and a woman in a dark red dress, the rich color of the silk complementing her long, titian hair ...Auburn hair.†  (source)
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    Still less is it acted upon for the good of the complemental being alluded to.†  (source)
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    Everything Six eats is only eaten to complement her main course of Nutella.  (source)
    complement = make better
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    I had gone over the trodden middle-class ground, moving through the necessary business, how our personalities complemented each other, what our sex life was like (and might become), our money situation, what our fathers would say, the fact that she was white and I was Asian (was this one question, or two?)  (source)
    complemented = combined well with
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    It neither fits your character nor complements mine.†  (source)
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    Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition.†  (source)
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    COMPLEMENTAL VERSES The Pretensions of Poverty Thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, To claim a station in the firmament Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those humane passions from the mind, Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish, Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense, And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone.†  (source)
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complement as in:  a full complement of crew

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We'll sail with a full complement of crew.
complement = a quantity of something that is considered complete
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    The jet was loaded with a full complement of weaponry.
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    Far above them, the pilot counted eight battleships, the Pacific Fleet's full complement.  (source)
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    There were fifteen of us in Hall's group: three guides, a full complement of eight clients, and Sherpas Ang Dorje, Lhakpa Chhiri, Ngawang Norbu, and Kami.  (source)
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    A new statue of the Holy Mother watched over a full complement of votive glasses on the tiered rack.  (source)
    complement = a quantity of something that is considered complete
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    I remember standing beneath a big, muscular Harrier, already loaded up with its complement of weaponry.  (source)
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    Is there a full complement?  (source)
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    Well, sure we did, I agreed, and of course we would lay in a full complement before the baby arrived.  (source)
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    He gathered together some supplies — not too much, not too heavy, he'd have to carry it all — and loaded up his spraygun with the full complement of virtual bullets.  (source)
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    Kelp did a quick head count. Eleven. One short of a full complement.  (source)
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    Columbia, he said, should run a full complement of the advertising created by his firm in the local editions of TV Guide and Parade magazine in twenty-six media markets around the United States.  (source)
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    His only issue, he tells me, is the program, explaining that Serenade in D major, Op. 8, Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3, and String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5, are not among Beethoven's more celebrated works, nor will we see the entire orchestra "in its full complement."  (source)
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    It's known around camp that they're scheduled to be here soon, and I've received messages for the quartermaster that the supply transport and complement will likely arrive by tomorrow.  (source)
    complement = entire crew
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