complement

In a sentence

Six example sentences with complement, each labelled with its topic.

• The woodcuts are a complement to the poems, supplying the weather and the faces that the spare lines leave out.

  Literature

• The company sells the tablet as a complement to the phone, handling the long reading the small screen never suited.

  Technology

• Her calm was the natural complement to his restlessness, and colleagues noticed the pair finished each other's plans without arguing.

  Psychology

• A sharp pickle is the natural complement to the rich pork, cutting through the fat with every bite.

  Cooking

• The cello line is a complement to the melody, filling in the harmony without ever competing with the voice.

  Music

• The garden was designed as a complement to the house, its low hedges echoing the long horizontal windows.

  Architecture

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains complement. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• obtain
• edition
• constitute
• shift
• accurate
• funds
• visible
• sufficient
• transportation
• theory
• react
• encounter