How To Use Dead weight In A Sentence
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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
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The compressive power of something like ten thousand tons dead weight has to be pretty fierce.
SAN ANDREAS
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A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
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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.
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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
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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
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That pig will weigh 4 score, dead weight.
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Sometimes science requires stirrers to shift the dead weight of unthinking complacency.
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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
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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.
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She was a dead weight and her body had gone completely limp.
Times, Sunday Times
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A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
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The large bureaucracies that implement dirigisme are a dead weight on society, but support the ruling elites with whom they share the spoils.
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That pig will weigh 4 score, dead weight.
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He wears a splint to support his right ankle and enable him to walk, and his right arm is a dead weight.
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A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
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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
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He has a best deep knee squat lift of 125 kilos, a best bench press lift of 80 kilos and a best dead weight lift of 150 kilos.
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He hoisted the dead weight over his shoulder.
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It had snapped off near the hilt, leaving him with a useless dead weight, devoid of magic.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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With difficulty she managed to pull his dead weight onto the bed.
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W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Only bringing in Monica again to be her sidekick and give Claire a friend her age who wants the same thing as her, or killing her off for good and giving Noah a good vengence plot can redeem the dead weight she carries on the show (yes, even more dead weight than Ali Larter because her plots are mostly stand alone when she is not with her biological family).
'Heroes' recap: Claire gets her girl on and Peter trips the light fantastic | EW.com
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She thus concluded that there was ‘no valid reason in these days why an allottee…should be subsidised by the tax payer,’ which was simply a ‘dead weight burden on the Exchequer.’
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A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
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Admittedly, there wasn't the dead weight of the attention-seeking kid to exacerbate matters.
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Mike grunts from the burden of Tristan's dead weight.
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Hundreds of thousands of family firms, which played an invaluable role in the 'economic miracle' of the 1950s and 1960s, had become a dead weight, making it impossible for Italy to make the leap to a post-industrial, knowledge-based economy.
Debt crisis: Silvio Berlusconi unveils reforms to avert Italian crisis
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Because the Orion had to be so stripped down, the problem caused further issues when it came to the Altair lander which now had to carry propulsion capabilities for purposes other than the critical moon landing phase - which means that dead weight now has to be carried to the surface in the form of excess tankage.
Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch
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She was a dead weight and her body had gone completely limp.
Times, Sunday Times
