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Example sentences for "weightless"

Lexicographically close words:
weightier; weightiest; weightily; weightiness; weighting; weightlessness; weights; weighty; weik; weil
  1. I sure wish they'd left us weightless for a while, sometime, if only for an hour or two," he mourned.

  2. Hope you like it better this time, because I'm afraid that we'll have to stay weightless for quite a while.

  3. Nadia eyed him impishly and tucked her feet beneath her, poised weightless as she was.

  4. I know just how the passengers will howl if we hold them weightless for half an hour, waiting for those two moons to get out of the way, and I know just what the manager will do if we check in minus thirty-one minutes.

  5. I've been weightless for weeks at a stretch, out in the Sirius, and now I've got so I really like it.

  6. But I forgot--you've never been weightless before, have you?

  7. But as a leaf falls so falls weightless thought Eddying, and with a myriad dead leaves lies Bewildered, or in a little air awhile is caught Idly, then drops and dies.

  8. As the last machine subsided into a semi-molten mass of metal the two wreckers, each grasping a brace, felt themselves become weightless and knew that they had accomplished the first part of their program.

  9. Early leaves drop loitering down Weightless on the breeze, First-fruits of the year's decay From the withering trees.

  10. There was a series of bumps, and the armor-tender, weightless on contragravity, shook as the handling-machine came aboard.

  11. Lockhart twisted in the weightless air when he saw them.

  12. Others found the weightless conditions not so bearable.

  13. And the smallest admixture of the weightless element is sufficient to prevent the weight from being taken as the measure of the quantity of matter.

  14. How are we to satisfy ourselves that there is not, in every body, some admixture, small or great, of the weightless element?

  15. And as the proportion of the weighty and the weightless matter may vary in innumerable degrees in such compounds, the weight affords no criterion at all of the quantity of matter in them.

  16. The spider dangles weightless From her wispy spinnerette, As does all existence hang suspended In the grasp of chance.

  17. It is weightless baggage that one is obliged to carry.

  18. Strong watched this approach closely, silently admiring the effortless way the cadet handled himself in weightless space.

  19. As soon as the ship reached weightless space, Tom flipped on the gravity generators and put the Polaris on her course to Venus.

  20. We were falling, unhampered by air resistance, and our bodies were practically weightless with reference to the Pioneer.

  21. We cannot let Gilbert's reference to a "weightless earth" pass without a few remarks to justify our approval of the statement.

  22. It was a strangely weightless little cylinder, with a firing mechanism which I had no idea how to operate.

  23. The thing was at first terrifying, gruesome; but in a moment those feelings passed and the weightless freedom brought an exuberance of spirit.

  24. There was a shock to my senses, swiftly passing, followed by a sense of weightless freedom.

  25. We dance in heys around the hall, Weightless as thistleball; And then a curtain drops between, As if I danced not there, But wandered through a mounded green To find her, I knew where.

  26. Yet there were comfortable chairs with straps so that when a man was weightless he could fasten himself in them.

  27. When in space that fan could draw out what would otherwise become an inchoate mixture of air and quite weightless water-drops.

  28. There wouldn't be any gamble on the practicability of assembling a great structure in a weightless "world.

  29. Across the space of the weightless room the hooded intruder was also clinging.

  30. However, no disturbing sensory inputs were observed during the weightless period.

  31. There is little question that in prolonged exposures to the weightless state, there is a fair probability of extensive circulatory adjustments, the seriousness of which cannot yet be foretold.

  32. The performance of a series of tasks involving continuous and discrete avoidance, fixed ratio responses for food reward, delayed response for a fluid reward, and solution of a simple oddity problem was unaffected by the weightless state.

  33. In Physical and Biological Phenomena in a Weightless State.

  34. Blood pressures, both arterial and venous, were not significantly changed from preflight values during 3 hours of the weightless state.

  35. While this behavioral experiment was relatively simple, it provided the basic concepts for recent studies which involved rotation of animals during the weightless state.

  36. Present methods of water measurement under weightless conditions are not satisfactory, and better methods will have to be contrived.

  37. In such a weightless state, organisms are liberated from their natural and continuous exertion against 1 g, but this liberation may carry with it certain serious physical penalties.

  38. Research on the Electrolysis of Water Under Weightless Conditions.

  39. A motion-picture camera photographed the behavior of two white mice in rotating drums during this series of flights, which marked the first time that simple psychological tests were made on animals in the weightless condition.

  40. His head was protected by his helmet, of course, and he was only doing about fifteen miles an hour--but the weightless condition of his arms and legs made it feel as if he were battling a sixty-mile gale!

  41. She'll be at the mercy of every wind that comes along if she hasn't, weightless as she is!

  42. Morey rose, and diving through the weightless ship, went down to the power room, Zezdon Afthen following.

  43. Weightless but inert, it made no difference whether his position was vertical or horizontal or anywhere between; from this point of vantage, with his length of body and arm and axe, he could cover a lot of room.

  44. Weightless combat is not at all like any form of gymnastics known to us ground-grippers.

  45. As he was landing, a curiously weightless man on this tiny planetoid, Jerry came to life and writhed suddenly in his arms, upsetting his balance.

  46. The hours dragged heavily, as they had when they were coming in, and Arcot remained alone on watch while the others went to their rooms for some sleep, strapping their weightless bodies securely in the bunks.

  47. But the dark of space seemed utterly empty around them as they coasted weightless through space.

  48. When all the mecscreens had been smashed and the weightless games grew boring, Mary looked out the sunroom port.

  49. Month after month, they played their weightless games while the mecs implored them to come down.

  50. Next follows an account of the telegraph as it dispenses with metallic conductors altogether, and trusts itself to that weightless ether which brings to the eye the luminous wave.

  51. On the same plan, the extremely minute motion of a galvanometer, as it receives the successive pulsations of a message, is magnified by a weightless lever of light so that the words are easily read by an operator (Fig.

  52. On the other hand, you have been weightless for three weeks and the change-over is liable to make some of you sick.

  53. Arkalion climbed out of bed gingerly, made his way to the sink and was soon gargling with a bottle of prepared mouthwash, occasionally spraying weightless droplets of the pink liquid up at the ceiling.

  54. After months of weightless inactivity, things started to happen for Sophia.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weightless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    airy; bodiless; bubbly; downy; ethereal; featherweight; feathery; fluffy; foamy; frothy; immaterial; impalpable; imponderable; incorporeal; insubstantial; intangible; light; lightweight; souffle; unsubstantial; volatile; weightless; yeasty