makeweight

How To Use makeweight In A Sentence

• The message from Thistle, though, is they are not makeweights in this Premierleague.
• The idea is that he will be used as a makeweight in a deal to get one of their prisoners back.
• Disc two's round-up of singles hints at last-minute doubts about disc one: doubts that, two or three makeweights aside, are unjustified.
• Samuel Eto'o had also been mentioned as a possible makeweight in any deal for Owen but he is determined to join Barcelona.
• The three concertos added as makeweight were recorded in 1982-83.
• The makeweight argument worries about stale claims and evidence.
• The thing is that it is not as if we have five strong players with four makeweights.
• France, after the shock of defeat by Prussia in the war of 1870-1, began to look to its cultural achievements as a makeweight to military failure.
• He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers.
• The interviews are moderately interesting - the composers discuss their earliest musical experiences and the background to their featured works - but they are clearly makeweights.