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Example sentences for "weighted"

Lexicographically close words:
weighing; weighings; weighman; weighs; weight; weightie; weightier; weightiest; weightily; weightiness
  1. The scent of mellow summer weighted the air.

  2. But I soon discovered that I was only a clumsy iron-weighted deep-sea diver.

  3. Midge found the first clue, a bit of bush broken off and weighted down with stones.

  4. The over-weighted raft tilted sharply to the left.

  5. Weighted down by shoes and clothing, they churned the surface in a frantic effort to keep up.

  6. Not when the chicken had been weighted with a fishing sinker big enough to carry it to the bottom.

  7. Rick moved forward on his board, and the weighted board tilted down.

  8. There is the lake, and a body weighted with stones stays down.

  9. The crude roof, weighted down with stones, would serve to keep out small animals as well as to shed rain.

  10. The waves no longer swept the deck freely, but the lake was still so rough that the ice-weighted ship made heavy going.

  11. Rosendo rose slowly, as if weighted with heavy thoughts, and went out into the living room.

  12. And now, were he to be turned adrift by Ames, the man must inevitably sink into oblivion, squeezed dry of every element of genuine manhood, and weighted with the unclean lucre for which his bony fingers had always itched.

  13. The world was the table whereon he played; the game rouge et noir, with the whirl of predatory commercialism as the wheel, and the ball weighted to drop where he might direct.

  14. As a squall was coming up the ceremonies were short, and presently every limb was weighted with the form of a captive.

  15. She put the blanket over him, weighted it with stones, and heaped reeds upon it; then she started for home.

  16. In pursuance of this plan, he ordered the men to plant several ponderous logs in the same position as the first beam, over which other logs were thrown crosswise, and the whole was weighted with heavy stones.

  17. It was weighted in strict proportion to the load that the full-sized air-ship would have to carry.

  18. And here I experienced the benefits of early rising; for I had scarcely got well and safely under cover, when St. Swithin began to pour down again, and he continued to pour during the whole of the day.

  19. The fall of the boring-head and piston can also be regulated by a weighted valve on the exhaust pipe, checking the escape of the steam, so as to cause the descent to take place slowly or quickly, as may be desired.

  20. Well, you and Nell be pretty well weighted too, surely,” drawled Roche.

  21. She got up with a sense of being weighted in every limb, and began to undress.

  22. Her hands moved with lightning speed though her body felt curiously weighted and unnatural.

  23. So weighted down was I by my unexplainable dread that for many a day I had little inclination for work or study or prayer.

  24. But when I had seen her last she seemed not over-weighted with grief or remorse.

  25. Unfortunately, Dermody's genius was weighted by the artistic temperament; he was lazy, irregular in his attendance at college, and not particularly grateful to his benefactors.

  26. From the larger public, the work has hardly attracted the attention it deserves; it is too long, too minute, too heavily weighted with technical details and statements of financial embarrassments, to be widely or permanently popular.

  27. That done, he felt more at peace with himself, more nearly a gentleman, less heavily weighted with his own cowardice and shame.

  28. The crops were covered with a glistening film of the horrible, sticky stuff, which weighted down and finally buried the green plants under its shining masses.

  29. When contact was established the ropes grew fat and wider, until they were like shining columns from the silver sea to the now heavily weighted plane.

  30. Tons of the silver horror had already accumulated upon the under surface of the great planes and weighted down the aëroplane until it was impossible for it to rise in the air.

  31. The story of the Egyptian officers being so heavily weighted with gold as to be unable to make good their retreat reads more like an Oriental fable than anything else.

  32. The spears were like Zulu assegais in form, except that, being weighted with a roll of iron at the extreme end of the shaft, they had a greater momentum and piercing power.

  33. The third portion of the Swedes fled in terror to the river, but many of them weighted down by their arms were drowned.

  34. Weighted down by the sense of his own importance, with haughty overbearing manners, and a dogged obstinacy in dealing with his inferiors, he was the last man in the world to be successful as a party leader.

  35. While weighted down with every sort of trouble and anxiety, he spent his leisure moments in writing perfectly delightful letters to his friends.

  36. The cord is weighted at its lower end and its upper end is fastened to a hook in a box at the top of the machine.

  37. The barks to which the baskets were attached by cables were weighted down by the load they were towing, but when the cables slackened the boats rose a little bit.

  38. The plunger is heavily weighted and it maintains a constant pressure upon the column of water in the cylinder.

  39. Among the Manyuema, Madis, and native followers, the epidemic had taken deadly hold, and many a victim had already been tossed into the river weighted with rocks.

  40. Its groves seemed endless and most thriving, and weighted with fruit, and tomatoes grew in prodigious plenty.

  41. He was not wicked nor designing, but so stupid that he could only comprehend an order when followed by a menace and weighted with force; but to a man of his rank and native courage, no such order could be given.

  42. Such love as you have never dreamed of, dear soul weighted with millions of gold!

  43. Many of the houses were roofed with thin boards weighted with stones, instead of the usual Chinese tiles, and the graves were covered with mounds of rounded stones carefully whitewashed.

  44. As the wheel revolves, the planks descend, catch, depress, and release a lever, the far end of which is weighted with a heavy blunt stone about two feet long.

  45. Our boat was of considerable length, deeply laden, and fitted with long sweeps at both ends, weighted with large stones to balance the outlying portions.

  46. Still the way seemed interminable, and his progress, weighted as it was, was perforce slow.

  47. Soon the horses were laboriously dragging their weighted fetlocks out of the stiff, clinging stuff--only to plunge them in deeper with the next step.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weighted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    burdened; charged; encumbered; fraught; freighted; hampered; laden; loaded; oppressed; overburdened; overloaded; saddled; taxed