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How to use dead weight in a sentence

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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.
Since dead weight is dropped continuously, staging reduces the total amount of propellant needed to put people or satellites into orbit.
The large bureaucracies that implement dirigisme are a dead weight on society, but support the ruling elites with whom they share the spoils.
The koala was a dead weight holding me down and we stayed in those brown dark depths for what seemed like half an eternity.
Finally, there is a limit for the dead weight of the structure if the structure is going to be floated out.
And, as it happens, the rescuer shedding what he knew would be the dead weight of his clothing was my great-great-grandfather, John Kitchel.
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.
Sometimes science requires stirrers to shift the dead weight of unthinking complacency.
No load overshoot or undershoot as commonly known from dead weight systems.
For example, obtaining comparable strengths from reduced pavement thickness reduces the dead weight of the bridge.
On the roof, Roger struggles under the dead weight of the young man.
The rear brush eliminates all traces and makes the worked surface look flat simply by its dead weight.
It covers tankers of less than 5 000 dead weight tonnes whose operation is not restricted by current Community rules.
We must instead place our selves and our present day existence where they rightfully belong, in the center of our universe, and shake off the dead weight of the past.
This surplus capacity is acting like a dead weight on the world shipbuilding market and even threatening the future of some European yards.
If the length and cross-section increase, the dead weight of the reel increases.
There needs to be careful strategic thinking of the ways in which positive social currents can overcome negative resistances and the dead weight of habit.
Do not mount any additional weight at the motor because the suspension eyes are designed only for the dead weight of the motor.
The use of aluminium panels as the outer and inner covering means that the dead weight is comparatively low.
Depending on the dead weight and size of the machine, use a pallet on which the machine can be moved by means of a fork lift.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole Christendom?
It was as the lifting of a dead weight which had crushed her heart within her.
Robin had swooned, and lay a dead weight in the arms of the prioress.
Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered.
The weight which had crushed the bush down had been a prone, dead weight.
So he left her, and went home with a dead weight at his heart.
This the heavy junk prevented, lumbering along behind and holding the Reindeer back by just so much dead weight.
Sol struggled towards the house with her dead weight on his leg.
The entente cordiale is simply a fetter and a dead weight upon you.
They are immobilised by the dead weight of Biblical literalism.
He felt the woman who was clinging to his arm become suddenly a dead weight.
He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness.
The great dog, regardless of being half-choked by his collar, was obdurately pulling with his dead weight against his master, resolved to get across the room.
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