WEIGH in a Sentence

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134 example sentences for WEIGH, such as:

1. Let us weigh the one against the other.
2. Each member weighed in with their own opinion.
3. The porter was weighed down by all the luggage.
4. My recruiting sergeant weighed me up when I first walked into his office.
5. I weighed up my chances of escape, and decided to wait for a better moment.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEIGH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
weigh
 v.  determine the weight of
 v.  show consideration for; take into account
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
2  But he is of your own faith, and his lightest affirmance would weigh down the most solemn protestations of the distressed Jewess.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  "I weigh not these evils," said Rebecca, afraid to provoke the wild knight, yet equally determined neither to endure his passion, nor even feign to endure it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  Happily, however, she was not left to weigh and decide between opposite inclinations and doubtful notions of right; there was no occasion to determine whether she ought to keep Edmund and Mary asunder or not.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  The audience cleared their throats and tossed a few stalks into the fire, not because these deeds were urgent, but to give themselves time to weigh the moral of the story.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
6  Bees hummed around his ears with an intimate air, and tugged at the heath and furze-flowers at his side in such numbers as to weigh them down to the sod.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
7  Let us weigh the one against the other.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  Carol helped him weigh babies and examine their throats, and she wrote out the diets for mute German and Scandinavian mothers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
10  Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
11  But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
12  She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfortunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explanation necessary before we meet.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The candidate was too outspoken to be a successful politician; he had not yet learned to weigh his words carefully.
2  Now the wealth did not weigh on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin, it was a legacy of life, hope, enjoyment.
3  And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you? Little nervous subject! Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness! You say you love me, Janet: yes -- I will not forget that; and you cannot deny it.
4  Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
5  The company will be able to weigh up the environmental pros and cons of each site.
6  All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
7  Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.
8  I weighed up my chances of escape, and decided to wait for a better moment.
9  Each member weighed in with their own opinion.
10  My recruiting sergeant weighed me up when I first walked into his office.
11  I thought she looked somehow older, weighed down by all her new responsibilities.
12  The porter was weighed down by all the luggage.
13  Experts believe the elderly creature, that weighed a hundred and fifty kilograms, was once the personal pet of the British naturalist, Charles Darwin.
14  By tilting the rotors forward, Bell's V-280 can nip along at 520kph and has a range of almost 1,500km, even when weighed down by four crew and 14 fully-kitted combat troops.
15  Molly made her debut weighing 70kg and was walking around her enclosure within half an hour, said a zoo spokesperson.