How to Use deadweight in a Sentence

deadweight

noun

• But there’s no deadweight to speak of, and the first five episodes give all of the main ensemble their chance to shine.
  — Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
• About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
• About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2021
• Set a goal, eliminate deadweight and sprint into the future.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
• Swiveling his propellers sideways, Johnson uses the tug as a deadweight to act as an anchor to slow the Marjorie C.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Well, at least the Reds wouldn’t be hamstrung with an astronomical, deadweight contract for long.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• Employers should dump the deadweight and set an example for employees who will readjust to be more productive members of society.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
• Her incredible ability to get played for a sucker by her own party is a deadweight on the entire national legislature.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2018
• He's said California's economy is proof that combating climate change isn't the economic deadweight Trump suggests.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Getting Gil's literal deadweight into place must've taken some serious muscles, or at least serious physics.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• What had seemed like a boon to our usecase ended up as a deadweight on our prospects – if investing all this money on autonomy only enabled us to clamor to fight for similar top line as incumbents, why even work on autonomy?
  — Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Immigration is becoming a deadweight loss by the day for the Republican Party and conservative politics.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• One explanation for the deadweight loss is a mismatch between desirability and feasibility.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024