How To Use dead weight In A Sentence
- A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
- She was a dead weight and her body had gone completely limp. Times, Sunday Times
- Because the Orion had to be so stripped down, the problem caused further issues when it came to the Altair lander which now had to carry propulsion capabilities for purposes other than the critical moon landing phase - which means that dead weight now has to be carried to the surface in the form of excess tankage. Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch
- Hundreds of thousands of family firms, which played an invaluable role in the 'economic miracle' of the 1950s and 1960s, had become a dead weight, making it impossible for Italy to make the leap to a post-industrial, knowledge-based economy. Debt crisis: Silvio Berlusconi unveils reforms to avert Italian crisis
- Mike grunts from the burden of Tristan's dead weight.
- Admittedly, there wasn't the dead weight of the attention-seeking kid to exacerbate matters.
- A heavy debt lay on the family like a dead weight.
- She thus concluded that there was ‘no valid reason in these days why an allottee…should be subsidised by the tax payer,’ which was simply a ‘dead weight burden on the Exchequer.’
- Only bringing in Monica again to be her sidekick and give Claire a friend her age who wants the same thing as her, or killing her off for good and giving Noah a good vengence plot can redeem the dead weight she carries on the show (yes, even more dead weight than Ali Larter because her plots are mostly stand alone when she is not with her biological family). 'Heroes' recap: Claire gets her girl on and Peter trips the light fantastic | EW.com
- W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
