How to Use weighty in a Sentence

weighty

adjective

• She grabbed a weighty book off the shelf.
• He was a weighty figure in the art world.
• The film deals with some weighty issues.
• Those are weighty arguments in your favor.
• The long length and weighty wool make this peacoat one of the warmest.
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2022
• The weighty crown was placed on a red velvet cushion to the right of the Queen’s throne.
  — Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• But the best way to wrest the mind from weighty fixations?
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
• More weighty, though, was the cultural heft of the Urbino court.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Sep. 2020
• By the end of Kahn’s weighty book, Harrison still feels the same.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
• Eileen Shiffrin, Mikaela’s mother and coach, added a weighty caveat.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• So the combat while fast, feels very weighty and the weapons are scary and potent with it.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Comas had the weighty task of capturing the essence of Bethune.
  — Eileen Zaffiro-Kean, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• These are weighty words, and the world has taken notice.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2018
• Emmanuel both pulls and pushes the weighty piece in a loop around Deitch’s space.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2021
• So a 12-pound throw might feel more weighty than a 15-pound queen-size blanket.
  — Medea Giordano Jaina Grey, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
• So it wasn't meant to be an overly weighty statement of any kind.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Still, the big reveal didn't add too much pressure to the already weighty role.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• And many hosts took this week to spend extra time on weighty matters.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• The New York City show held weighty meaning for the designer.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
• Some of the weightiest yuks never even made it to air, though.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2018
• While traditional crab bisque is weighty and rich, this does not have to be the case.
  — Rebecca White, Dallas News, 31 Dec. 2020
• Any sequel would need to live up to that weighty legacy — as well as the legacy of the late Boseman.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• An instant heirloom, Halili set this rare coin in a weighty gold pinky ring.
  — Jill N Newman, Town & Country, 11 June 2021
• The result is a behind-the-scenes telling of the modern Olympics in a weighty, 500-page coffee table book.
  — Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• There are much weightier issues for Jews in the U.S. to focus on.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• The look works: the right kind of weighty, and handmade at a moment when craft seems to matter more than ever.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 10 Feb. 2018
• In its length that shot delivers a weighty comment on the current state of Brazil….
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 21 Feb. 2022
• Both Ende and L’Engle have a gift for tackling weighty themes in a way that can speak to both children and their parents.
  — Giulia Pines, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
• The room is weighty and masculine in an unoppressive way.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• One of the few completely fail-proof gifts is to give someone one of the best coffee table books of the season—weighty tomes whose thick, glossy pages feature stunning photographs and illustrations, to be specific.
  — Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024