WEIGHT in a Sentence

Learn WEIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

325 example sentences for WEIGHT, such as:

1. Bananas are usually sold by weight.
2. He's always worrying about his weight.
3. And worth his weight in gold, I dare say.
4. These columns bear the weight of the roof.
5. None knows the weight of another's burden.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEIGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
weight
 n.  the heaviness of something, especially as measured by a certain system
Classic Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1  As the boards shuddered under her weight, the soliloquy she had been muttering in the front hall grew louder and louder, coming clearly to the ears of the family in the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether sent their carriages and they, too, drove off, springs sagging beneath the weight of the wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, panting weight to tired, anxious hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  "Well'm," answered Prissy, dragging out her words pleasurably to give more weight to her message.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  The sun blinded her, the hard boards of the wagon under her were harsh against her body, and a heavy weight lay across her legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She tried to sit up and discovered that the weight was Wade who lay sleeping with his head pillowed on her knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  The upstairs hall seemed to shake as Mammy's ponderous weight came toward the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  They were simply a dead weight on her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Her sore foot, forgotten in the excitement, now gave a tremendous throb that made her grit her teeth and shift her weight to the heel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  And worth his weight in gold, I dare say.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Melanie held onto the back of her chair for support, almost crumpling beneath the weight of a disapproval she had never known before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Scarlett was annoyed at the weight he attached to Bonnie's night terrors but she thought she could eventually remedy the state of affairs and transfer the child back to the nursery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  She was standing on the edge of the freshly waxed top step, and as her arm with the whole weight of her body behind it, struck his out-thrust arm, she lost her balance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  A metre is a unit of length and a kilogram is a unit of weight.
17  The shelf was beginning to sag beneath the weight of the books upon it.
18  Bananas are usually sold by weight.
19  You may take several months to reach your target weight - it depends how much you want to lose.
20  The one who wants to wear a crown must bear the weight.
21  Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
22  Deliver not your words by number but by weight.
23  None knows the weight of another's burden.
24  The weight of the books bears on the shelf.
25  The other children taunted him about his weight.
26  He amply fulfilled the weight of expectation that they had placed on him.
27  He's always worrying about his weight.
28  The branches were bowed down with the weight of the snow.
29  These columns bear the weight of the roof.
30  The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.