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exert a force with a heavy weight
The snow bore down on the roof - be oppressive or disheartening to
How To Use weigh down In A Sentence
- Don't weigh down a weave with heavy products like gels or moisturizing lotions, or by adding too much hair.
- She collects stones to weigh down her basket, but as there is no hurry she falls asleep on the bank.
- Fill the foil with baking beans, dried pasta shapes or uncooked rice to weigh down the pastry. Times, Sunday Times
- Submitting every request to view metadata will slow down and impede investigations and weigh down courts. Times, Sunday Times
- I also like to remove deadheads or seed-heads that weigh down the plant's foliage.
- Do you know if a piece of lead will weigh down an equal bulk of iron?
- The presents weigh down the branches of the Christmas tree.
- Sediments washed into the basin from both the fore-arc ridge and island arc weigh down the crust in this area, creating the depression.
- Something has happened since the crisis to weigh down on trade, which goes beyond subdued growth in many industrial economies. Times, Sunday Times
- Do you know if a piece of lead will weigh down an equal bulk of iron?
