paperweight

[ US /ˈpeɪpɝˌweɪt/ ]
[ UK /pˈe‍ɪpəwˌe‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
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How To Use paperweight In A Sentence

  • The typewriter is under siege from a stapler, a hole punch and several sheafs kept in line by glass paperweights, but doesn't look worried.
  • These paperweight buttons will truly add a piece of art to anything that they go on.
  • Around the same time, Murano glassmaker Pietro Bigaglia captured international attention with his millefiori paperweights, exhibited in Vienna in 1845.
  • The tools of calligraphy include accessories such as penholders, brush pots, ink boxes, paperweights, seals and seal boxes.
  • Common gifts were jewels, gloves, silk stockings, flowers, garters, handkerchiefs, and paperweights.
  • Books can function as doorstops, paperweights, hiding places for some valuables, platforms for balancing a teacup on or props for broken chairs or tables.
  • They made several unsuccessful attempts before managing to enter Paperweight and take the items, most of which were later recovered.
  • He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. Nineteen Eighty-four
  • The paperweight had fallen onto the desk, badly marking the surface.
  • I just stared at an ornament on her desk, a glass paperweight riddled with air bubbles.
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