How To Use dead weight In A Sentence
- The weight is slung at either end of the pingo, and the elasticity of the wood accommodates itself to the spring of each step, thereby reducing the dead weight of the load. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
- The compressive power of something like ten thousand tons dead weight has to be pretty fierce. SAN ANDREAS
- A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
- Lyrically, the album matches its musical dead weight with a string of unpoetic clichés - maybe the lunkheads who fill arenas didn't get Chris Martin's ramblings about spies and scientists.
- As I inched up the wall, the dead weight of my legs were giving me the most expensive wedgy I have ever paid for embarressing? Archive 2007-05-01
- With almost superhuman effort and after a half-hour struggle, Quentin finally dragged Tommy 's dead weight up out of the shaft. KISS OF THE BEES
- That pig will weigh 4 score, dead weight.
- Sometimes science requires stirrers to shift the dead weight of unthinking complacency.
- With that dead weight gone I could just keep my grip, and with a mighty heave hauled myself into the thicket, catching a stouter branch and getting a leg over it — and suddenly there was an appalling crack, the branch gave way, and down I went, entangled in a mesh of leaves and withies, under the surface, helpless in the grip of the current which swept me away. Flashman on the March
- But in the nineteenth century women were difficult to save: their voluminous clothing was a dead weight in water, and modesty usually prevented their shedding their apparel, even when in danger of drowning.
