counterpoint
noun
the art of combining melodies.
counterpointing
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present participleof counterpoint.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Sontag, of course counterpointing, noted that “its most obvious trait is assertiveness of one kind or another.”
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020
The television was on, and Tupac’s “Hail Mary” was playing on his phone, a tolling bell eerily counterpointing the opening rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Weirdly, it adds something here, counterpointing all the anger and defiance in the lyrics with an affecting frailty.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
Because it’s the counterpointing and the contrasts that’s some of the richness of it, and to lose that, I think, is to lose one of my aces in the hand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2010
As a draughtsman Leech has been admirably placed by Mr. du Maurier, who calls him a perfect ballad-writer as compared with the more scientific counterpointing of Charles Keene.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
