Richard and thepaperweight followed in hot pursuit.
Plunging down the steps he held out for her inspection a crystal paperweight which he had picked up from the library table.
Somebody ought to lay a paperweight on that village a windy day like this.
I have not seen the inside of it since--I do not want to see the inside of it," he added brusquely, moving a paperweight about on his desk.
You know--under the paperweight on the little table.
He took a heavy paperweight and lifted it threateningly, but at once put it back in its place.
The drawers in desk and tables were closed, the safe in its old position, and to all appearance untampered with; beneath a paperweight of Japanese metal, representing a hideous mask, lay some papers which Dick did not stop to examine.
In the midst of his agitation he noticed that in his starting from his chair he had swept off the table the Japanese paperweight and the documents which had lain beneath it.
At the same instant, with all the power of his trained baseball arm, Tom had hurled the heavy paperweight straight at the outlaw captain.
And with nothing but a paperweight and bare fists," he chuckled.
Bully old boy, Melton," commented Tom, playing lazily with a heavypaperweight he had bought at a curio shop at their last stopping place.
Mokorongo pretended to scratch himself; what he really did was to shift the paperweightuntil it rested under his left arm.
Outside in the black night, and conscious of the paperweight under his arm, the messenger's full courage and sense of authority returned to him.
The paperweight consoled him, as it had kept up his courage throughout his long journey.
I will bring the medicine," replied the messenger, clutching at the paperweight which bulged under his tunic.
When the sun came out Mokorongo stripped and spread out his tunic, shirt and loin cloth to dry, placing the paperweight and handcuffs on a little tuft of short grass which was comparatively dry.
He replaced thepaperweight inside his shirt, and buckling on his belt again sat down on his heels to watch the village.
He put on his fez and tucked the paperweight inside his tunic.
As he fell his thick fingers closed on a cast-iron paperweight that lay on the desk.
Unconsciously, perhaps, his beads of eyes roved over his desk in search of a convenient paperweight or other weapon.
The old man slid down from the stool, a paperweight in each hand.
In the horror of his discovery he flung his arms and knocked off the desk his full stock of paperweight ammunition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paperweight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
