3779 examples of weigh in sentences

Captain Parkinson, stiff and erect in his chair, staring fixedly at a spot two feet above the reporter's head, seemed to weigh, as a judge weighs, the facts so picturesquely, set forth.

Here is a trout that will weigh two pounds, and I want to hook him up.'

It was a cow-moose and would weigh as killed five or six hundred pounds.

They weigh over a pound, and have to be unlocked with a key in a manner not greatly differing from the operation of winding up the average eight-day clock, and fastened on to the prisoner's wrists, how, the fates and good luck only know.

I would weigh out the powder charges as nicely as an apothecary weighs his drugs, for I had discovered that with the pistol the weight of bullet and charge meant much for good marksmanship.

We must not weigh them down, but only help them when it is seen that there is need for it.

"The things which weigh heavily upon my mind are thesefailure to improve in the virtues, failure in discussion of what is learnt, inability to walk according to knowledge received as to what is right and just, inability also to reform what has been amiss.

To ponder is literally to weigh; to apprehend an idea is to take hold of it; to deviate is to go out of one's way; to congregate is to flock together; to assail or insult a man is to jump on him; to be precipitate is to go head foremost; to be recalcitrant is to kick.

Pend, pense, pond> (hang, weigh): (1) pending, impending, independent, pendulum, perpendicular, expenditure, pension, suspense, expense, pensive, compensate, ponder, ponderous, preponderant, pansy, poise, pound; (2) pendant, stipend, appendix, compendium, propensity, recompense, indispensable, dispensation, dispensary, avoirdupois.

No, Holymead knew that Birchill was innocent; he knew who the guilty man was, and, knowing that, knowing that his action in defending the man charged with the murder of an old friend would weigh with the jury, he took up the case because he felt there was a moral obligation on him to get Birchill off.

After giving various reasons for her action, she proceeds: "Now, I beseech you, weigh all these things in an impartial balance....

And in such a world, a being feeling ever towards or somewhat beyond what he can weigh and measure, and looking up to find above himself that which is too high for him to understand, would be an anomaly as lawless and incredible as the wildest fabled monster, the Minotaur or the Chimera, the Titanthe Sphynx itselfnay a more delirious riddle than any that in dreams it proposes to us.

Rations "They'd weigh the stuff out and give it to you and you better not go back.

Well, it is all over and forgiven now; he is your father, and has brought you up to be everything that is noble; he would like to weigh your future happiness as in a pair of scales, and wishes to see you just as happy and well-protected as you have always been under his fatherly care.

A miniature knife, enfolding 75 articles, which weigh but 7 dwts., exquisitely wrought and valued at 50 guineas.

Poor little Roy, with his uncertain health, was heir to a very large property of his father's not far away; and the responsibilities awaiting him, and the knowledge that he would have so much power in his hands, perhaps had the effect of making him weigh life more seriously than would most boys of his age.

Now, when Holmes had resolved coolly to weigh this woman, brain, heart, and flesh, to know how much of a hindrance she would be, he could only see her, with his artist's sense, as delicate a bloom of coloring as eye could crave, in one immovable posture,as he had seen her once in some masquerade or tableau vivant.

"Helen is a girl who'll take a long time to make up her mind, and who will weigh all the pros and cons.

"Loose, then, from earth the grasp of fond desire, Weigh anchor, and some happier clime explore.

What did these young giants weigh before the War? * *

These masses of stone weigh from two to eight tons each, and it is expected that the wall will be of a most solid description, as great care is being taken to fill up all spaces.

© 3Oct28; A1055977. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (PWH); 20Aug56; R175560. How much does your gun weigh and how hard does it hit you? © 22Sep28; A1055449.

How much does your gun weigh

"I weigh twelve pounds more than I did last summer.

I wanted to weigh him.

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