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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of dead weight

  • As in clog : noun blockage
  • As in impediment : noun obstruction, hindrance
Example sentences :
  • You will find that I shall be of no use to you—that I shall be a dead weight on your hands.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • The weight which had crushed the bush down had been a prone, dead weight.
  • Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole Christendom?
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Between us the dead weight didn't seem too intolerable—not at first.
  • Extract from : « The Man the Martians Made » by Frank Belknap Long
  • So he left her, and went home with a dead weight at his heart.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • It was as the lifting of a dead weight which had crushed her heart within her.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Sol struggled towards the house with her dead weight on his leg.
  • Extract from : « Dream Town » by Henry Slesar
  • At last they yielded, and the dead weight tumbled in a heap before him.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • But I tell you it was hard work getting him up, he was such a dead weight!
  • Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus
  • The entente cordiale is simply a fetter and a dead weight upon you.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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