Z had shrugged and looked off toward the window while Rashid transferred his weight back and forth, trying to come up with something else to say. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Miles of rope crisscrossed the space, running up towards the ceiling, turning on pulleys, and coming down the walls, where weights and other mechanisms held the rigging in place. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was used to carrying weight up and down stairs by this point, but the attic stairs were much steeper than those of the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Already so wet that they no longer felt it, they were nevertheless shivering with cold and weighted with their drenched fur. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all their differences in hair, and height, and weight, they shared the same eyes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were dappled Percherons from France and shire geldings of tremendous size built to bear the weight of men in armor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Or “Well, it was raining during delivery, this added weight is simply moisture, that explains it.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the Tuesday before the race, the weights were released. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight twisted the sword to one side, and knocked Julius to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sneider trained Bobby in swimming, weight lifting, tennis, and soccer, and they became friends. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed one, but it snapped under my weight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Supposing the weight collapsed the earth, caved in the storage room and trapped them? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of combined bodies hit the ground between the lines. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She made her way down the next corridor, hopping to keep the weight off her bad foot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight, wondering how he could get to the gate without stepping on the concrete. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the weight room door, clutching his gym clothes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His back was more stooped than I remembered, and he was awkwardly using his hands to take the weight of the pipe off his shoulder. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swallow a breath and try to hold it behind my sternum as I gingerly tilt and try to put weight on the leg, but I can’t. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Chandresh takes it from the drawer, startled by the weight of it, and drops it with a thump onto the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rain might add some weight, but otherwise it would be one more day layered upon all the other days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goats ran as best they could, but while Snarler ran well and ran fast, even with the weight of the giant’s cauldron to pull, Grinder limped and staggered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"More so with the weight of a bay an his back. Yet the only bom prints here are our own. See for yourself." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He sure looks like he’s eating well, doesn’t he? I think he’s actually gained weight,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bees simmered; a lush apricot swoon weighted the air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If left to its own devices, a sufficiently large ball of gas would collapse under the weight of its own gravity; it would crush itself into a tiny lump. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Around the room there were more girls now, mostly on the cardio machines, headphones on, pumping away on the treadmills and ellipticals, but some were lifting weights just like I was. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped off, but her weight was thrown too far forward, and the board tipped its nose into the water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Back at the raft he found that Derek’s weight had pushed it into the bottom so hard, it was difficult to get loose. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the tack and thinking he was racing that day, Seabiscuit would become keyed up, lose interest in eating, and fret weight off. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were making their way through the weight classes in record time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He rocked it back and forth a few times to get the fuel flowing into the engine, and once he smelled it he put his entire weight into a big swing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s...um...great,” I said as Miles grabbed my leg and pulled it over his, shifting my weight off his rib cage. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Without the fledglings to feed she grew heavier, but weight alone was not enough to start her migrating. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The school, where they paid attention to him and respected him, and then power, with his endless decrees and his glorious uniform, freed him from the weight of an old bitterness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They crept forward, testing each spot before they put any weight on it, a process so slow and wearisome that they thought they might die of fatigue; but they couldn’t rest, they couldn’t stop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She tore at the mesh, helpless, and then hurled her whole weight against the machine as he brought two wires together with a spark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Woolf wanted to get his weight off of his mount’s back, but he was going too fast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of water, but she didn’t notice the weight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the miles rolled away, it was as if a great weight slowly fell away from me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It felt like I had hundred-pound weights strapped to my feet. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If you push, the other wheel grips, but it is geared so that the axle still turns in the same direction and the weight continues to rise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Alice had picked up a leaflet that had floated to the pavement, read the words, and shifted her weight at the curb. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hero leaned into his spear, using his weight to twist the point in deeper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, I was persuaded things would improve, even while I felt newly burdened by the weight of it all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But, at the last second, Fred shifted his weight just so to keep it from capsizing. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

No wonder Zion was so insecure about his weight. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But Finn didn’t want to hear what they had to say about Priscilla, because the weight of her gaze felt like a hand on his shoulder. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For instance, he explains, you could be gaining weight “and walk past the mirror and get a glimpse of yourself even if you’re not looking at it, and that starts a cascade of self-analysis.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he released it into her hands, its weight almost made her drop it in the snow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You and Muthu helped us stretch the other end of our tarp from the wall to the ground and weight down the bottom edge with stones to make a sloped roof. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes focus on the ground, and she shifts Geak’s weight on her hips. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True solace can be worth its weight in gold.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He shifts his weight and clears his throat. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gained weight, but hadn’t they both? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The MAV isn't going to have much weight allowance when I launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was to press my front paws on to a tiny wooden platform and hey presto, a spring would stretch and a weight would drop and the door would swing open. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was covered in lead weights, trying to swim with only his legs while holding a car over his head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Frightful rested, then darted around Cocos Island for three days, eating and sleeping and gaining weight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I’ve brought nothing to give you, I told them, and my heart took me down like a lead weight, for no matter whether these words were true or false, they were terrible and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week, every member of the crew, including dogs, was weighed and measured, to see that no one was losing weight—or eating too much. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She ignored the creaks of the counter under their weight and moved around filling their orders and keeping up a conversation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was lighter than the rucksack but awkwarder, because the rucksack’s weight was taken on the shoulders, whereas carrying Lyra, Malcolm soon remembered, involved both arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Annabeth was kneeling under the weight of a dark mass that looked like a pile of boulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Simon looked up, feeling the weight of his wet hair, and gazed at the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The cold weight of it startled me, and I let it fall to the carpet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He's lost more weight. But he's still alert, and he recognizes us. I think he has a few more weeks.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I cannot fit on it,” he said, “and I doubt it will bear my weight.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He set it against the edge of the table and leaned his weight against it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So if you ever want to walk the streets again, you had better find somebody to take the weight. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched a honeybee lurch from one fat flower to the next, drunk and staggering under the weight of all that botanical destiny. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On examination his fat was found to contain stored dieldrin, which had been metabolized as he lost weight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The suitcase under her slipped; she adjusted her weight. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb stands a few feet away, his weight on one foot, an uncertain posture. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I fell, my weight bent the branch until it broke. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I clambered onto the crate, it shook and groaned beneath my weight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He brought the weight down, and then up again. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She took a coil long enough to reach over one of the branches of a high tree and back down to the ground, and strong enough to bear several times her weight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And pulling Dumbledore’s uninjured arm around his shoulders, Harry guided his headmaster back around the lake, bearing most of his weight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was tempted to do so, in order to know what would happen if the tree failed her, if it broke from her weight and she fell. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He leaned out the door again, barely gripping the hand bar with his fingertips, all his weight dangling by those thin wrists. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since the air on some days seemed to be heavier than on others, he reasoned that he ought to be able to measure the changing weight of the air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I don't know if I can carry so much weight, but I know I have to try. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had this bad longing to be back there that sat in my stomach like a twenty-pound weight. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The best glass came from Myr, but a good clear pane was worth its weight in spice, and green and yellow glass would not work as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I struggle as she helps me stand slowly and get into bed, my legs and arms feeling like lead weights. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Woundwort had won almost every fight of his life by using his weight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all at once, Travis felt an overwhelming urge to relieve himself of one more weight that day, while he was on a roll. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The iron weight looked like something borrowed from Sarah’s kitchen—a heavy little hooked thing I’d once seen her hang meat on to roast. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After checking his heart rate, temperature, and weight, she announced, “Dr. Spires will be with y’all shortly.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As I tried to work my left leg free, I put all my weight on my right leg, until it started to sink as well. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Amar drives fast, trusting the weight of the truck to keep us steady. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t sit down anymore, even though my foot hurt when I put weight on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My first reaction was to press down on the brake with all of my weight. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He purred with Gray under his silver mother’s rough tongue, tasted her warm milk, felt the weight of her chin resting over his newborn skull. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chess shifted the weight of Finn’s drowsy body to the side and hesitantly began: ‘“I don’t...’” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A Penobscot under the weight of a canoe. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Struggling against his weight, reeling backward, I knocked the fishbowl from its pedestal and it crashed to the floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In her bedroom, he would submit the full weight of his knowledge to healing her condition, knowing all the while that his success would only separate them forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I should probably go now so I don’t have to stand in line all day,” Rashid said, feeling the weight of the bag pulling on his shoulder. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And he was in any case the bearer of the Ring: it hung upon its chain against his breast, and at whiles it seemed a heavy weight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The stresses and fractures, the quick collapse, the two of them buried alive under all that weight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight in my backpack, like a bowling ball. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My shoulders were red and raw from the weight of the sack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike his usual selections, she was plain, short, and plump, her weight somewhere between 140 and 150. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sympathy could start a fire without flint or lift a heavy weight without cumbersome ropes and pulleys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"That will carry more weight than anything I might say." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boar was less fortunate; it couldn’t turn that fast, so all ten tons of the monster charged out onto the tiny trestle, which buckled under its weight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Reality settled on her shoulders, and she felt the cruel weight of it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was always dropping hints about her weight. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And there, at the base of the impregnable anchor, where smooth mesarthium met the stones it had crushed two hundred years ago underneath its awful weight, was the solution to Weep’s problem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The weight on my empty stomach hurt too much. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of years of longing for it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She still feels the exhilaration of leaving the bakery with the warm weight of the loaf in her knapsack. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There is one valve closed by a weight, although it is not in this case a safety valve; however, Papin describes the operation of such a valve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m as strong as can be,” he roared, lifting an enormous boulder over his head, “and I’m as weak as can be,” he gasped, staggering under the weight of his hat. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

With his weight against them, it was hard to pull them loose, even though they were sailor's knots and had loops in them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She herself invented a wonderful door-opening device made out of wires and springs and pulleys, with heavy weights dangling on cords, and soon every door in the house had a door-opener on it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

PE for Joseph was lifting weights in the barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The moment the Tower came into view, a whole new weight added itself to the ball and chain of terror I was dragging behind me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And even though I felt it was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I think through everything, but in the end the weight is heavier, as if it’s moving up the rest of my body and sucking me down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When she and Zeitoun were married, he insisted that she get beyond the weight issues and eat like a normal person. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could only compare the heavy weight of Dragonwings to the light pair of wings that Father had worn during his visit to the dragon kingdom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was light enough as it was, a volume with no weight. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to wait long, since each dose had been calculated according to body weight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I pick up the weights, and my arms fall immediately with the burden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I would heft its weight in the palm of my hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leans all his very considerable weight against the door. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

With eighty-eight weighted keys, it almost felt like a real piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The whole weight of his father was on him, but it was his father and no one could take his father away from him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It crumpled under its own weight into a mountain of bent steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Obiora, please kill this chicken and put it in the freezer before it loses weight, since there’s nothing to feed it,” Aunty Ifeoma said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it went down, slipping lightly through the old man’s fingers, he still could feel the great weight, though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skinny arms were trembling from the dead weight of her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually you’ll find the place where the surface just barely bears your weight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I noticed they had both put on a bit of weight. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Imam Malik shifts his weight as if the burden resting on him is too much to carry. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But then she crossed her arms and her weight shifted to one leg as she looked up the street toward Olympiad. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Richard felt himself tumbling through a tunnel, felt the weight being sucked off him hour after hour. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“More weight,” the apostrophe has bravely said - if ever more faindy. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But my underwear already felt wet, and I had to move my weight from leg to leg to hold the urine back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bubbles glowed in the heat and wobbled under the weight of wind and fire and dust. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I collect each dog’s breed, age, color, weight, and gender, and the number of days it took to be adopted. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was stout and her walk was slowed by her heavy weight. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Your back feels bony. Have you lost weight?” she asked. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The weight of it is enormous, Jule. It smothers me. You’re pushing me to be something to you, and I don’t want to be it.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He held the line tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his weight against the wood of the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Zeus kept pounding the giant with lightning, until finally, slowly, the water rose, wrapping Typhon like a cocoon, and he began to sink under the weight of the chains. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I think I can carry a bit more weight.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The man in black just hung in space, feet dangling, the entire weight of his body supported by the strength of his hand jammed into the crevice. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At this I felt a weight like stone within me, and, moaning, pressed my length against the bed, with no desire to see the daylight more. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the corner on which they stood seemed suddenly to rock with the weight of mortal danger. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Finally he says, “Pushing close to a hundred pounds...plus the weight of the wheelchair...that would be hard for an able-bodied person.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The baseball bat was turned perfectly smooth, the weight so solid and balanced that the world seemed to slow as he hefted it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I swung out again with my right, hard as I could and with all my weight behind it, and this time I heard a loud crack and a scream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The blades are rusty, the edges dull, and the pair of sickles I pick up ain’t even weighted properly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Art brought the weight of his foot down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Met Bong then instructs me to sling one arm over it, balancing its weight with my arm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think his weight should buckle the flimsy cot, but it doesn’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at the flea market, Afghan acquaintances made remarks about Baba’s weight loss. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like how substantial they are, how you can feel the weight of the clay. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘A good thing it held as long as it did! To think that I trusted all my weight to your knot!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s taller. Or at least stands straighter. He’s lost weight. And his chin is firmer than it was.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She could, she said, lick her weight in City Councilmen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

James II had succeeded his brother in 1685 and, after a cautious start to his reign, by 1687 he was starting to throw his weight around. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He felt the extra weight of a blanket that had been draped over him while he was asleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The bow dips low from its weight, and crewmen scream and scramble. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It has the same melting point as gold, the same weight and malleability. If it’s not identical to gold in every way, the difference has eluded us. Have it tested if you like.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Blood dripped slowly onto his glasses; the extra weight pulled them down until they hung off one ear. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

During that time he had lost seventeen percent of his body weight. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pegs didn’t seem strong enough to hold his weight. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So no one until Galileo bothered to see whether bodies of different weight did in fact fall at different speeds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly the corpse's weight was gone, its fingers ripped from his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That they could start pulling their weight around the place and get in early to help with breakfast. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It bent under her weight and lowered her into the fern bed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The weight of finality—so heavy that it felt like a physical thing—hung in the air between us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I just had to get rid of some weight. I was desperate.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was prone to errors of deportment—in moments of abstraction she tended to shift her weight onto one foot in a way that particularly enraged her superior. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In October he fell ill with fever and dysentery and was hospitalized for eleven days, during which he lost considerable weight and passed his time reading Atlanta newspapers and playing chess with other boys. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was hanging lopsided over the railing, one leg supporting her weight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran used the bars sunk into the wall to support as he swung the dead weight of his legs into the basket and through the holes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain’s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two pairs of hands drag me up before I can see properly, and I scream as my wounded leg tries to take some of my weight. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The vines creaked and tensed as the weight of the cauldron shifted. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It won’t add distinction to my almost translucent eyebrows, nor add weight to my bony frame. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She shifted her weight nervously as the condor face of the man who had taken her from Sam flashed into her visual memory. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember exactly what her weight was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she concentrates on the tap, tap, tap of her thumb to her fingers, and on the weight of the Saint Christopher medal in her pocket. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sefia began gathering up Nin’s things—an oversize shirt, the spyglass, her lock picks—as if the weight of them would be enough to hold on to, now that Nin was gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The embarrassment felt like a weight, like something I’d never shake off, even though I knew my parents wouldn’t care whether I’d read every card correctly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She could look at the person and eyeball their height or weight and therefore their size, and buy what she needed to make their suit. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, and he flung his arms over his head, hardly knowing whether he was trying to hold in his anger or protect himself from the weight of his own disillusionment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The giant’s weight made the boat ride low in the water, and the dwarfs rowed the boat onto the rocks just under the surface. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I staggered under the weight, felt my knees buckling, before the hands slipped away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My head bows as I lean against the sink, struggling under the weight of the world. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I test the weight of it in my hands, disbelieving, and then toss it down and hop on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Eisen informs us that we’re going to continue our weights unit until Tuesday, after which point whoever shows up for the last classes will play softball in the field. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Slept the night through once or twice, put back some of the weight she’d lost in the attic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As you know, the MAV will need to lose some weight to make the intercept. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand of wire, pinning it against the snowy ground and Creating a small gap in the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Actually, she'd have to lose weight to be in that scene. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was the weight of the fish and he let the line slip down, down, down, unrolling off the first of the two reserve coils. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru paused, her lungs heaving from the weight of the lightning bolt and the decision put before her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The revolution had been slow and ponderous, but it had weight, and that weight built up a momentum, and when that momentum finally broke forth, it was with a great and accumulated force. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Stick shifted his weight to his other knee. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My backpack seems to have tripled in weight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He leaned his weight upon the door of the pickup and let his head thud-thud against the window. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When her lips touched his skin, he sucked in an involuntary, desperate breath and a weight slammed into his chest. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nailer’s frantic activity and extra weight had weakened it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Conor shouted, forcing himself to his feet, pushing against the invisible weight pressing down on him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kevin enjoys every meal, in part because of the need to maintain his weight for football and because, beyond that, he has a hard time sitting still. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her arms and legs were weighted down with gold bangles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach my house, my left heel will bear no weight at all. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within just a few meters I stumbled under the weight of him, but I didn’t let go. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not like this you’re not. You cannot bear weight on that broken foot until the bone heals—six weeks at least. Maybe you try again then.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Hands twelve inches apart, elbows against your knees, fingertips splayed. Then slowly, slowly shift your weight forward onto your shoulders—get those toes off the ground—and then just push yourself up.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the weight of the crash bracelets and knapsack pulled her down fast, and panic welled up in her pounding chest She thrashed in the water, climbing up toward the flickering lights of the surface. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Charles wrote back, “To my mind an enourmous weight of evidence would be requisite to make one believe in anything beyond mere trickery....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the heavy weight came nearer, the tree bent right over, and it was all that the cat could do to hold on. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the two weights were roughly equal, I was able to pull the rocks down and bring the battery up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin shifted his weight from one foot to the other, his eyes on the floor. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mary’s body surged upward and he pushed downward upon the pillow with all of his weight, determined that she must not move or make any sound that would betray him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of the toilet-paper dispenser dug through my jeans and into the backs of my thighs, and he thrust his palm against my chest and leaned all his weight onto me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I arranged them on my back, my body struggling against all the weight. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pinmei began to shake her head in protest, but the woman’s eyes were weighted with so much worry that Pinmei found her own heart pale. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His head was bowed slightly, as if a great weight had settled onto him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To make weight in anything but high-class stakes races, jockeys had to keep their weight to no more than 114 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full weight of Josef rests on me, and he is too heavy for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The slow days drifted on, and each left behind a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Bell, Stanley's former math teacher, might want to know the percent change in Stanley's weight, the reader probably cares more about the change in Stanley's character and self- confidence. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Still, all he could manage was, “I’m still trying to lose weight.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Chip didn’t know how she could support so much weight. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only was Big Rose taller than both Harp and Gully, but she carried more weight on her than those boys, who were probably two years older. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Anya took the rubles and slipped them into her pocket, the weight there somehow even heavier than the horseshoes from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I shifted my weight from side to side and clapped the edges of my sneakers together, knocking the wet sand off. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There’s weight on the rest of me as well. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sweaty singlet clung to his body and she noticed, for the first time, how much weight he had lost, how shrunken his chest looked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sudden weight smote him and he crashed forward, tearing the backs of his hands that still clasped his master’s. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His weight like a rag on the rungs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I slid the seven talents into my pocket and felt a great weight lift from my shoulders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She eased up the ladder trying not to make any noise, but it creaked and swayed under her weight. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

My hands catch the sill and concrete scrapes my fingertips as they bear my body weight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, I see,” he said, and a weight and a darkness fell on him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head ached from gin and his arms ached from the weight of the statue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without another moment’s pause she tucked it into her bag, relishing its new weight. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A huge weight had been taken off his shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The artillery horses threw their weight against their collars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy did stay still, but even so it was not easy going down the ladder with her extra weight. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness pressed down on Gregor’s eyes until he felt it had physical weight, like water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use the automated landing system because it wasn’t set up to handle a plane with that much weight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then the weight of the bull was too much for him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would throw those weights at my head, right now, if she saw where I was. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could you leave me with all this weight? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I did not lose any weight and I actually stood an inch taller. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Something with a bit of weight to it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was a scraping as everyone drew their cauldrons toward them and some loud clunks as people began adding weights to their scales, but nobody spoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sparrow’s claws screeched and grated on the roofing slates as the weighted rope pulled her downwards on the steep slope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Syl’s ma and pa was where I’d left ’em, leaning so’s the weight of the iron rod and chains was on the ground. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I walked away front that haven which held the pond and the swimming waters of the golden carp feeling a great weight in my heart. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to feel Anastasia’s weight on us, to feel teeth in my shoulder or hands ripping at my leg. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her still-raw fingers across the clay pots and wooden tools, amazed at how each had its own texture and weight Everything seemed so heavy and... serious. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His claws found Woundwort’s leg, ripping sideways; but before he could draw back, Woundwort’s whole weight came down on him and the next moment his teeth had met in his right ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to think she would have lost the weight she always wanted to lose without dieting. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ease up the latch and feel the weight of the big door. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But a heavy weight crashed into him and knocked him flat again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, arms curled grotesquely at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below 80 pounds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The shock of his weight forced the breath from my chest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nobody was certain whether the two were related, but there was no denying the vomiting and weight loss and general horror. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One kid who came to the track in Tijuana and announced he wanted to be a jockey was told he had to take off some weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Motions are slow with Sadness’s weight, forged Link on Link, a Vestment about his Chest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The driver got ninety days in jail and a black mark for the rest of his life, in addition to the weight of his deadly actions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Yeah...in the weight room, we often have deep, philosophical conversations. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju scowled and Ifemelu noticed how much weight she had put on, the beginning of a double chin, the new flare of her nose. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I shifted my weight on the unyielding stone, a few hairs caught in my eyelashes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He could get out an’ help poor Pat of a Friday night when the Limerick Leader is a ton weight. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even with Annabeth supporting almost all his weight, he could barely stand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I headed back to the University with money in my purse and the comforting weight of the lute strap hanging from my shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was large enough for Bri to sit on comfortably and it had footrests so she could shift her weight around during the long trip to Port Authority. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Almost at once she was back again staggering under the weight of an enormous round chocolate cake on a china platter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted her weight from foot to foot, and her ankle bells jingled merrily. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But when it is in its proper place it becomes weightless: when you swim in the ocean you cannot feel the weight of water on you. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Chubs gave him the finger, leaning forward to put his full weight into closing the briefcase. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“If you make it,” Ben said, leaning with all his weight against his father’s rear, trying to slow the inevitable move toward the basket for the easy hook shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, everyone she knew bore the same weight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dark pressed against her, and she wondered if her father had given up his vigil because of the weight of the night on his back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suggested that when elements were arranged by weight they appeared to repeat certain properties–in a sense to harmonize–at every eighth place along the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The young woman was gaining weight before everybody’s eyes and daily grew more languid and ill-tempered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were closed, and her breathing sounded like there was a weight on her chest. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I asked, huffing under the weight of the sack. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I step down with one foot, pressing my weight into one of the crossbars. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The world around Seven began to spin, and she felt a heavy weight on her chest, making it hard to breathe or even move. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The weight of heredity is not an abstraction for me. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The depth of her deceit became vivid to Fujiko, and she felt in herself a mother’s rage at the weight of this betrayal. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After Nathan figured out how to shift his weight so that he didn’t roll off it, the water monster picked up his pace and was outright running. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mother in the doorway, no tears in her eyes but her face bloated with their weight. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another few inches and my weight would pull me to the ground. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They turned and locked eyes, understanding the weight of what had happened, taking in that Minerva had moved the ladder sometime in the night, before the Recruiters woke us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Two men lugged a heavy trunk between them, staggering slightly with its weight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The material is not light; he didn’t think it could withstand being weighted down by a too-slow pace. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Robin had to keep to the outside wall to allow room for the crutches to spread far enough to bear his weight. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But I can’t walk away, or the guilt, the weight of Will’s life, and my parents’ lives, and now Marlene’s life, will break my bones, will make it impossible to breathe. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was heavy, but its weight gave him no trouble. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Turner was sitting in a front pew as hard as Jacob’s pillow, and he shifted now and again to let another part of him take his weight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They never complained and they pulled their weight and they looked after Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My head pounds and it feels as though lead weights are tied to each of my joints. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the growing weight of the Ring, a burden on the body and a torment to his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Still, 133 pounds was the highest weight any horse had ever lugged in modern California racing, and every other horse in the field would be carrying at least 20 fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slumped against me, and suddenly I was carrying half the boy’s weight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the awful weight lifted, and a nudge from a boot flipped her over effortlessly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The weight of what she had done settled over her again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, I am being trusted to carry the weight of millions of people’s voices, right? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The pommel was a hunk of pale stone weighted with lead to balance the long blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His weight yanked the lever down and then he was falling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his weight on a hardwood staff as tall as he was. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had lost weight, and her nose seemed enormous on her angular face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of years, decades, centuries of hate and violence—it all gathered in the air and pressed down on my shoulders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Augur ignores my barb, and though his voice is no louder than it was a moment ago, his words are wrapped in iron, weighted down in certainty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen cassette tapes cracked under their weight. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Several wrestlers, boxers, and weightlifters had eaten themselves out of their weight classes, and some were unable to compete. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only where weight was concerned was man not the measure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the weight on my chest lifts now that he isn’t touching me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He only noticed how lightly and how well the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the elevator stopped again, one of her ankles twisted painfully under her weight, but she managed not to fall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was thinking about the coin as she crossed the Flowstone Yard, struggling with the weight of the water in her paiL "Nan," a voice called out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was in a deep sleep because his full weight squashed into my intestines like a five-hundred-pound dumbbell. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All week before the weights for the New Year’s Handicap were announced, Howard made warning noises about his 130-pound limit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The right wing was all cavalry, some four thousand men, heavy with the weight of their armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He keeps stopping to pick up rocks, examining them, and then either tossing them back or stuffing them in his sweatshirt pocket, which is starting to sag with the weight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They say friends are worth your weight in gold. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a person weighted herself down before jumping, as Imogen had written she planned to do, there was no telling how long it might take before a body was found. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could not lift and hold that weight, unless I was in dothe. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still isn’t, but now he has his things, his sleep things, the hawk eyes and his weighted blanket and the sound of the clock that hangs on the wall. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, like he’s heard, he peeks out from the weight room, and our eyes meet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The other girl is about my height, my weight, and has on all black. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, an armored giant struggled under the weight of a swirling funnel cloud—Adas, holding up the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

So if two boats carrying the same weight have the exact same stroke rate, the one producing more power per stroke will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her presence had a weight, depth, and clarity that nothing else did—not even Lixxa, and there were few things Lazlo knew better these days than the physical reality of Lixxa. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Cannonballs are stacked in pyramids, and there in the middle sits the cannon, impossibly heavy—the copper planks beneath it buckle from its weight. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, hydrogen is a lot lighter than oxygen, so that almost 90 percent of the weight of the water would have come from the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I'm alone, I take it out and hold it in my hand, just feeling the weight of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Teddy shifted his weight over to one hip and stashed his notebook in the side pocket of his shorts. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We chitchatted a bit and I left, and on the way home I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as the great Cross-roads had been passed, the weight of it, almost forgotten in Ithilien, had begun to grow once more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And the sodden heaviness of peace weighted down his limbs so that it was only with the strong, true purpose that he moved. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The line from the notebook felt like a dead weight in my stomach. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I just spin my sickles in my hand, relishing their comfortable weight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The statue toppled, slowly at first, then gaining speed as the weight fell from the sky to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push with all my weight against the door, but it won’t budge. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had not even realized that he was clammy or that there was a heavy weight pressing on his stomach until both sensations lifted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He fell forward onto his chest from the weight of her and the nightmare’s fists pulling on her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pressed together like a sandwich, the paired boards could carry twice as much weight, most of it in saddlebags slung on the underside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the weeks since I left 13, she’s gained some weight back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I got my appetite back and began to regain the weight I’d lost in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her faded brown dress and put on the new one, and it felt like wearing the weight of spring: soft and warm, with the breath of an evening breeze over her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under his gross weight the bed gave, and Rachael shifted her position. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The muscles in my arms grew numb from the weight of the pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I'm alone, I take it out and hold it in my hand, just feeling the weight of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sunlight warmed her skin, and the weight around her shoulders drifted away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was still my decision, no one could make it for me, but I didn’t have to carry the weight of it alone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tally felt the weight of the mountain pressing down upon her, and found that she was still struggling to breathe as she pulled herself out into the sunlight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She jumped down, and the tree bobbed up against Turner’s weight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Saying the words is like a weight lifting. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ray fungi, growing in long threadlike filaments, are somewhat less numerous than the bacteria, yet because they are larger their total weight in a given amount of soil may be about the same. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She felt for the iron and salt that she always kept in her apron pocket, the bundle a reassuring weight in her hand. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But as the weekend draws to an end, I feel a familiar weight of dread in my stomach that grows heavier and heavier. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My feet come loose and I try to stand up and I have to lean some of my weight on her. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a breath under the snake’s weight, trying to keep calm. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“No,” she says, and her weight falls dead on me, crushing my chest, stealing away my breath, and she is cold and wet, like melting ice. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was doubled over beneath the weight of a sheaf of hawthorn for the kitchen hearth, barefoot, her head bowed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they leaned forward they had to run forward, to keep up with their weight, and if they leaned too far backward they fell down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York trip had told him that he had a very good horse in his barn, and until the weights were assigned for the hundred-grander, he intended to keep him hidden. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed also that water consisted of seven parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen, and so he gave oxygen an atomic weight of seven. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I was in third grade, I got the name Fluff because I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches every day for lunch and also, I guess, because I started putting on weight. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think I’m going to need some help. He weighs a ton. Dead weight, you know.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The weight of moonlight—sticky and sweet—gathered on her fingertips. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tables sagged under the weight of venison, roast pig, smoked fish, and every kind of vegetable and desirable fruit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The weights fell off; there was nothing to bear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs trembled as she willed them to hold her weight. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We got Calvin grunting under the weight of Matt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I'm swimming in these clothes, still skeletal, though I know I've put on some weight in the past few weeks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It grew heavier and heavier, and just when I thought I couldn’t take it any longer, Uncle C sighed and the weight disappeared. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the bed sheets couldn't hold all their weight and snapped. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The machine is designed to use the weight of water to lift half a tank of water while the other half balances it by going downwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was more than a little smug, trundling down the hill, helping to maneuver the weight of a full-grown buck on the travois we’d strapped together out of branches and sinew. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For example, lower-income respondents give greater weight to the importance of faith. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We spent another hour practicing some plays, putting them into action in little scrimmages, and then Coach sent us to the weight room in pairs. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of work to do, and for most of them there was a lot of weight to burn off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hop up on my left foot and put all my weight on it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He simply willed himself to stand, to move his feet that felt weighted and clumsy, to go forward, up the steps and across the platform until he stood at her side. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is only an efficient cause: the balance of weights; and a structure or form that makes the balance possible: a sealed tube up-ended in a bath of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She struggled to stay focused and push forward, but the culminating weight of everything that had happened that week wouldn’t leave her alone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I soon realized the “Peanut Game” was similar to the situation I had about my weight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Why did you bother bringing that? You’re carrying enough weight around already.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you saw him try to lift his body up and down in the chair, like he was lifting a weight—which he pretty much was. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the pigs seemed comfortable enough, and in fact were putting on weight if anything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As he drew near, Sefia felt the weight of his gaze on her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I slid out of the wagon, sure to keep my weight on my right leg. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned, Bigwig threw his full weight upon it from the other side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my full weight behind the wrench, and the bolt begins to turn. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Claudia was tired and cold at the tips; her fingers, her toes, her nose were all cold while the rest of her was perspiring under the weight of her winter clothes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire remembered a time some years ago when the weekly report showed that her mother’s weight had risen slightly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All he needed to do was shift his weight and sink the half nelson. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So we finish our routine and hit the weights before the football team enters the weight room and starts grunting and trying to see who can bench-press the most L-B-S-es. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had got their weight properly distributed in front of them, so that they were just off their balance, each broke into a trot to keep up with himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there in the music of the bar mitzvah party, feeling the weight of what had happened in the synagogue, I saw again the glittering stream, with its light rushing toward me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The penny settled in the hollow of my chest, its weight warm and comforting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It placed its entire great weight on top of his grandma’s office. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Just having one person with me is a huge weight off my shoulders. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He kept a hand on Littlefinger's shoulder to help support his weight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I picked one of them up, and the weight nearly toppled me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when he landed, it was the force of his own weight, rather than the pain firing up his whole body, that stunned him into silence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got a whole lot calmer when I picked it up and it was the right weight, I didn’t think they’d taken anything out of it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She skinnied farther out, until the branch began to sag under her weight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This made her feel as if her whole family could float up and up into the sky, right up through the hole in the ceiling, like they had no weight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His weight pins me to the sofa, but I don’t want to move. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hit his palm with the flashlight, testing its weight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Small slips these are, memories they wouldn’t expect from a two-year-old, but my memories don’t differentiate—two days, two years, or ten—they are all the same weight and intensity. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A well- trained falcon might be worth her weight in gold. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone quieted to see this lump of rags, shuffling forward, his weight leaning on a gnarled stick, his legs bent like bows and caked with mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight The spear moved forward inch by inch and die terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The male seemed suddenly to totter, perhaps from the weight of its feathers or from the weight of rejection. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If one drops two bodies that don’t have much air resistance, such as two different lead weights, they fall at the same rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is not simply a question of weight and brute strength. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course a lead weight would fall faster than a feather, but that is only because a feather is slowed down by air resistance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we shall find out how much weight your promises carry, won’t we? When you are ready, human youth, I will assess you.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The snakes flicked their tongues and writhed as if they didn’t appreciate holding up the weight of a giant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Give me your confidence, Jane,” he said: “relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me. What do you fear?—that I shall not prove a good husband?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly before I’d started first grade, my mother had started to gain a lot of weight. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could still feel the shape and weight of her hand in his, the warmth and softness of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Immediately the massive weight of the bull was on her, humping her down, my father and Serrano were laughing and slapping their knees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and Beau’s weight pulled my shoulder down. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Your leg won’t ever mend properly, Nathaniel. There’s been too much damage. Best we can hope for is that the bones grow back together strong enough to hold your weight.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Luke dropped the gun and stared right at Lily, finally feeling the weight and the pain of Toby falling on top of him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight a little so the hemline rides even higher, now halfway up my goose-bumped thigh. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I managed to rise, but it was like holding the weight of the sky again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He grabbed hold of the chain, hanging from it, using all his weight to try to put pressure on the link. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I have to lift weights that are tied around the ankle of my right leg. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He did not know his weight, though he knew it was well under one hundred pounds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Mary Rose shifts a little as she takes my weight. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked, but the weight was about right. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the weight of the two walls pressing down on him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the unmoving air of the room and the smell of medicine and skin salves I could feel the weight of the time she had spent in this bed waiting and hoping to die. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is the famous story of how Galileo dropped different weights from the Leaning Tower to show that they would arrive at the ground below together. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hear the weight of his words—how serious he is about what he’s saying. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My weight being much greater than Dr. Trefusis’s, there was some danger of my upsetting the craft as I clambered aboard. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The weight of the bag sinks into my lap. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The four anchors and the great weight they upheld. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But with things that are numbers, like height and weight, I could throw those into the equation if I wanted to calculate the odds of those kids having so much in common with us, and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He isn’t allowed to put any weight on his leg for almost two months, which explains why he’s no longer coaching. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“The weights challenge comprises the first part of your exam. I want to see records of everything. Get your clipboards, girls.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It is highly unlikely that he was considering passing up the hundred-grander for the Widener, but he thought the pretense might help in the touchy matter of weights. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the same reason that a high-school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m. to lift weights. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Since the War Admiral race was over and the weights for the Santa Anita Handicap had been announced, the trainer was no longer trying to hide his horse’s workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bobbed a little as it adjusted to her weight, like the bounce of a diving board. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But with the weight of age and politics, Tres Marias, like many other things that had once seemed essential, had ceased to interest him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew on a piece of paper with Maisie, teaching her letters, the hot-water-bottle weight and warmth of her on my lap, her sticky fingers in my hair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once I finished with my weight training, I stepped onto my treadmill. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Along with the stifling crowds, there were jugglers and swordsmen and curio sellers and camels lumbering under the weight of tourists in starched suits and petticoats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tested it with my hands, placing my weight on it little by little to see if it held. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pieces were six to eight feet in length and thirty pounds in weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been chubby as a child, at least to some eyes, and in her teens her weight fluctuated wildly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s the liver. It can be up to twenty percent of the shark’s body weight. The fatter the liver, the healthier the shark.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the privacy of the bathroom, alone and unseen, the weight of the experience pressed down upon me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wore capri pants and Keds sneakers and moved slowly, leaning most of her weight on an aluminum cane. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The extra weight was nicely distributed; Maples was a powerful man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would be a year before he was back to his previous weight. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The tents in the yard were half-buried, sagging under the weight of the accumulation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And suddenly I hated him, which was easier to do than feel the unrelenting weight of my shame. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her heavy footsteps pound the floor as if it should crumble under the weight of their importance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I grabbed at her hands and twisted my body underneath her to turn over so I would be on top, but she pushed her whole weight down on me, grunting. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes drooped, his lids looked as though they had weights placed on them, but he smiled and said something that made Amaka laugh. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Cyclops’s smallest sheep were big enough to support my weight, and they had thick wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

My arms bore the whole weight of me as the metal lurched beneath me and I had to stretch through my toes to balance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was too young to be frightened when the ground dropped away as if let through a trap-door and she herself suddenly became twice her usual weight, but not too young to be mightily interested. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The weight of the geas slams down on me, and I know that if I tried to speak, my mouth wouldn’t be able to form those forbidden words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Thank you," I said, shifting my weight on my feet and touching the door knob, little moves, polite preliminaries to closing the door. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even though Fig had lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time, he couldn’t afford to gain it all back again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The descent of the weight is regulated by an escapement mechanism and, before the pendulum, it was the inaccuracy of this regulation that was the source of error. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t like you think. It wasn’t a camping trip. I lost weight, but more than that, I didn’t come back the same.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He set a limit of 130 pounds, choosing that weight because it was the most the racing secretary would be permitted to assign in the 1938 Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting better at holding the crab pose now—I’d almost managed to hold my body weight up on my elbows yesterday—and I wanted to see if I’d make more progress this afternoon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after this, I heard the slap and slam of sash weights as SanJuanna threw open the parlor windows beneath my room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I swing it a few times to feel its weight and power. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear Luzan’s bird-high voice, a bizarre pitch that like much else about him was a little silly, a dress of maudlin order on a man of such girth and weight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Based on his recent symptoms and—wow—a twenty-two percent drop in his weight since last time, there is indeed a strong possibility that Sir Fig Newton has diabetes.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pain stabbed up my leg with each step, and I tried to use the wall as a crutch to keep some weight off it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The axle of his empty wagon complained, as it did when there was no weight to quiet it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as he put weight on it, the injured foot buckled and he crumpled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had obtained A’s and B’s in all the other subjects, but because I had failed Tsonga, which carried more weight, I had failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the halls they raced, but Yoyo was quicker than he and made it into her room just in time to lock the door as her father threw his weight against it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hitching the bag so that the weight was better distributed, Rashid frowned and started walking faster. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They carried on quietly, hand, foot, weight, move, test, hand, foot....Their fingers were raw, their knees and hips were trembling with the effort, their heads ached and rang with exhaustion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I decided to just make sure he brought all his weight on every play. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Its weight, shape, and material are so different from a revolver that I have no trouble holding it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It hits him, fully: the weight of this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He shifts his weight and arranges his legs so he's sitting cross-legged. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I picked Dinah up, I could feel her disappointment like a heavy weight inside me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She leads him up five flights of uncarpeted stairs that creak noisily beneath their combined weight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the queries and compliments stopped when the weight loss didn’t. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kate moved her hands slowly and lifted her weight a little from her arms. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tubs’s left arm began to ache from the weight of the chocolates and he shifted his burden to his other arm, taking a moment to pat the reassuring bulge of his wallet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, for instance, that hydrogen was the lightest element, so he gave it an atomic weight of one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But Amah’s bracelet gently pressed on Pinmei’s wrist with the weight of a loving hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I came out of the subway, weak, moving through the heat as though I carried a heavy stone, the weight of a mountain on my shoulders. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As tight as the chains were, Tyrion found he could see out the latter by leaning sideways and letting the iron ring support his weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the church full of anxious energy, as though I’d been sent through time from some disastrous future to this moment, when my actions still had weight and my thoughts, consequences. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He tested the weight of it, slicing at the cold morning air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To make it easier for the handlers of top horses to plan for their race, Santa Anita officials had assigned the weights two months before, on December 15. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the question I asked myself. ‘Who carries a lot of weight day in and day out?’ A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he scooped Ivy from where she was sprawled on the bed and curled her into his arms like he was lifting weights. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The ladder groaned beneath my weight but held, and within moments my feet were on worn floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We ran inside and up the stairs and held on to Dad’s legs so that Mom’s weight wouldn’t drag him through the window as well. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But his voice couldn’t hide the weight of what he was about to say. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s an inch or two shorter than me, and probably half my weight. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He lost a lot of weight and became less and less responsive to visitors after returning home from the hospital. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Still she didn’t gain weight and, most upsetting of all, her menstruation didn’t occur at the expected time. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of it’s worked out the curl and frizz. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I felt its weight on my shoulders and the back of my neck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Widget stares at him for a moment, not quite long enough for Bailey to become uncomfortable under the weight of his eyes, but almost. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The weight of the pump mechanism ensures that the piston rests in the up position. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She could feel Pet’s cool weight, indifferent to Bitter’s distress and Aloe’s anger. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He had noticed that they were strong enough to bear Us weight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down and shook her head, and the boys reeled her down to the ground, where she stepped back into her weighted shoes and untied the rope. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And then she added, “It was that same weight that let me know you were lying in conclave.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to remember why I came here and why I care about unburdening myself from this beautiful weight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I scrambled up the fence, which bowed and shimmied under my weight. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the comer of the room, attached by ropes, hung huge weights that kept the clocks running. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the case of the California couple, improbability carries more weight, but still, their defense attorney's argument was the right one. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was so weighted down with gold, it disappeared instantly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was standing in a large modern fitness center lined with exercise equipment and weight machines, all of which could be perfectly simulated by my haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got the weight of the Free World on my shoulders and you want me to start World War III?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

You can change things in later years, but with 93’s your freshman year, you’re going to have a lot of dead weight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then the weight increased and he gave more line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britain comes over and sits next to Golly on the weight bench. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the hidden ice cracked beneath the weight of the wagons, three teamsters and four horses were swallowed up by the freezing water, along with two of the men who tried to rescue them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instant realization sent a leaden weight thudding into the pit of Matthias’s stomach! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I told them you were all right,” my mom said, but she sounded like the weight of the sky had just been lifted off her shoulders—and believe me, I know firsthand how that feels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Tats slows down as we near the weight room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mom’s new twin bed appears tiny under the weight of a mature sheet set, the edges of the quilt comforter sweeping the floor. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One by one, the pairs of feet in front of Harry took the weight of their owners once more; hems of cloaks swung into sight, and Madam Rosmerta’s glittering heels disappeared behind the bar. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And when the crying had cleansed my soul of the great weight of pity, I got up and ran home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess fell asleep Friday night feeling like he had a weight pressing down on his heart, and he woke up Saturday morning feeling like the weight had done nothing but grow overnight. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He tested his weight on his foot and nearly collapsed again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was carrying 130 pounds, 12 more than second- high weight Aneroid and as much as 20 more than other horses in the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how can I handle any more weight of being the perfect Jenna, now not just for Mother and Father, but for people I don’t even know? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The bolt was designed to withstand immense forces; if necessary to carry the entire weight of the payload. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stair treads seemed to crumple under his weight and the porch planks squealed as he crossed them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have been pushing his weight around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Going up seemed impossible with the extra weight of the crazy guy on his back. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now far above national average in height, weight, strength. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Still looking at myself, I shook my head, trying to get used to the weight of La Llorona’s ear pendant. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And he was worried about the weight assignments his horse’s success would bring. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her progress was almost completely noiseless; she chose her path where the earth was bare, or where grass grew, and she avoided dead leaves, which would rustle and crackle even under her small weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They used slates for writing, and abacuses, weights, and measures for math. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At that moment he felt the heavy weight of the dog move beneath him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our weight was such that after they let us go, we spun faster and faster, laughing so hard we felt dizzy and sick. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As the Solvay drew near, interest in the deuton spread beyond Berkeley and the Cavendish, as did doubts about Lawrence’s disintegration theory and, consequently, his calculation for the neutron’s weight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like I’d been carrying the weight of that story in me, not even knowing it was heavy. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was something comforting about his warm weight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It also meant they used fuel less efficiently because they were carrying more weight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lose a litde weight maybe, but the first hamburger and a malt and fries will bring it right back. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They do in cases of spousal abuse,” Evelyn replies, and I feel that same old feeling again, the hollowness and the weight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some have collected so many that they will stoop under the weight of them when we go back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner leaned his weight on me as he gave out his last breath. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The schoolteacher put his arm affectionately over Matty’s shoulders, and Matty noticed for the first time that the teacher had lost weight. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on us and we had small sips of water and shifted our weight from foot to foot. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At around thirteen she began to develop breasts; she lost weight, her waist thinned out, and she shot up like a transplanted tree. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Remember what Haymitch said about being sure to throw the weights." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I toss the rock up a few inches then catch its weight in my other hand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter what she wore or how she acted or if she lost weight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The fins and nose cone would add more to the weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With his shoulders bearing the weight, he was able still to use his walking sticks. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lynn shifts her weight from one foot to the other, her eyes flicking around the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight; and, after half an hour’s quiet reflection in her own room, she was able to join the others with tolerable composure. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She studied him for a moment longer, from the way he balanced his weight to his left, to what feature he first noticed when his eyes moved on and he examined the other competitors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it made its way to the desk behind me—to Jimmy Long’s desk—which groaned as his body weight shifted. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He later gained back six percent, but had virtually no body fat—his body had consumed all extra weight and he would remain lean and wiry for several years. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never lost the weight from her last pregnancy, and now she has two fleshy chins. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were each armed with a sword, knife, and crossbow, and though they’d been alert while their captain passed by, she knew a crossbow wasn’t exactly a light weight to bear for hours on end. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The word had refinement, and the weight of medical diagnosis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had the shrunken appearance of a plump man who has lost a lot of weight in a short time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Watching them pat each other on the back and proudly spin their turkeys, examining the carcasses for size and weight, I was back to wrenching regret. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was almost too hot to take, but Mother Nature’s hotbox proved unbeatable for sweating off weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to calculate how much weight he had lost, and how much money he now owed the connects who supplied him with the drugs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Even when her doctors said her cancer was in remission, I still felt the weight of death in Nana’s house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I waited, shifting my weight from one foot to the other, fixed in her stare. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He paused to let the weight of his accusation sink in. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day was the same: a morning run with Scythe Rand, weight training with Scythe Chomsky, and a nutritionally precise breakfast prepared by a master chef. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Once they had slept off their exhaustion, and got used to regular meals again and regained some weight, the mood was sour or surly, even among those without permanent disabilities. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He also lifted weights, rode horses, hiked, ran, swam, rowed, and tried all different types of sports. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It picked up momentum as the heavy weight of the overbalanced top dove for the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hooks were attached by a yard or so of leather cord to a bell-shaped iron weight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I rose to walk, and despite having inhaled half the menu I felt easy as a feather weight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He scrambled as far up the young birch as he could go, and clung there, the slender trunk swaying under his weight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the block couldn’t handle the extra weight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Conor felt his stomach sink, felt his whole body droop under a ton of extra weight. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Luke could still feel the weight of it in his hand when they went running back into the woods, his entire body shaking with either fear or excitement. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe I want proof that if we had the chance to continue, we would survive the weight of the stares. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason it did not surprise him; it only made him feel worse, a quantitative addition to the weight shrinking him from every side. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kaede held the knife in her hand again, feeling the weight of it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for him to lift Zero, who was half his weight. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t dare let her weight settle onto the other arm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hamza’s legs give occasional lurches, strange spasms that ease his dead weight in my arms. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on Hannah’s hair tenderly, but it felt as heavy as a weight. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a strong woman, but even for her the weight of this load was almost more than she could manage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Snarling, using the weight of his body as a tool, he rode the circling and stumbling beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is always sucking her teeth at what I’m wearing or making some comment about my weight, even though she’s more floppy and misshapen than a sack of laundry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rutherford and Chadwick stated flatly that they had not found Lawrence’s suspiciously light neutrons in any of their bombardments and saw no reason to revise their calculation of the neutron’s weight to conform to Lawrence’s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The weight of the young man’s arm took on a quality of something beyond human flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The boyish abandon of that stout man was charming to behold, for though he ‘carried weight’, he danced like an India-rubber ball. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer, spying the chess table, galumphed to the center of the stage and immediately lifted the white queen, testing its weight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the mercury exposed in the pan that makes the fluid shoot up the column. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes travel between the form and me as she reads over my weight and height. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of this town. Do you know what it’s like? To have his name? To wear that millstone around your neck? The stares and whispers? The weight of this blood?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

That’s both good and bad: good, because it keeps the weight off his feet, and bad because it means he’s in enough pain he doesn’t want to stand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It grows quickly up to a weight of a ton and lives in herds that have a well-developed dominance hierarchy, a trait whose virtues will be discussed below. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the day, my neck is sore and my shoulders are hunched from the weight of it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he painfully stood up and winced when he put weight on the bad leg. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Staggering up the stairs, he remembered Pilate’s back as she got out of the Buick—not bent at all under the weight of the sack. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked, from above, like a set of great map weights holding down the city’s edges so it wouldn’t blow away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t know his weight, so I leave that off. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have to do all that. Look what happened. You’re crumbling under the weight of it all.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dots of sun danced on the green walls of the shady grove above low bushes weighted with pigeon peas, the earth screened with twigs, sensitive moriviví plants, and french weed studded with tiny blue flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

His right hand dropped just a mite with the weight of an almost insignificant reward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as now, all racehorses were assigned a weight, called an impost, to carry in each race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan slowly let the weight of the gun carry the muzzle down. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of the world upon his shoulders. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My head, shorn of them, feels curiously light; as if a weight has been removed from it, or substance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His lordship sagged into his seat, his shoulders slumped, his legs splayed, his hands resting on the arms of his throne as if the weight of them were too much to bear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see him, couldn’t even turn my neck anymore, but just the weight of his palms was reassuring. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With everything, he talked a lot about weight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jon could sense the vast weight pressing down on him as he waited behind the Lord Steward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She takes the beaver by the tail, feeling its weight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tree shook with the sudden weight of the robot, and then—thunk thunk!—two pinecones bounced off Roz, and a moment later—thunk thunk!—the same pinecones bounced off the bears below. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to burden Seabiscuit with 132 pounds, but he knew that going the way of the lighter weight would draw criticism. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra stretched and yawned, and Will felt a great weight lift off his shoulders. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer spread out his weight and lay still, heart pounding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn’t lose weight as everyone had long assumed, but gains weight–an extraordinary discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Food will make him pick up in weight,” Granny said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, actually,” I tell him, shifting my weight from foot to foot. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Luke reached him first but couldn’t hold him; then Benjamin added his weight and Shawn slowed a little. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She caught him before he fell and was surprised by his weight. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The white judges, the intimidating police, the insulting drivers, and the crushing weight of all the years of custom and law were simply overwhelming. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Seekers were usually light and speedy, but Diggory’s weight would be an advantage in this weather because he was less likely to be blown off course. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

All the throbbing in my head comes back, and the ache in my shoulder, and I feel like my body weight doubles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The weight of this moment could crush us all. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In Oak Bluffs the next day, Jule felt light, without the weight of her hair. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was itching to climb, but when she hoisted herself up onto the next rock, she felt it shift slightly under her weight. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now his weight was on the other side. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He feels all of Ray’s weight leaned up against his leg. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed good health and he gained a lot of weight. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight to the other foot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s just that those things don’t seem to have the weight, the measureless beauty of countless sunsets and dawns, the simple grace and clear glory of nature. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He stepped onto her carefully, his weight taking her by surprise. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They came in like undulations in the water, gathered weight of water, and then broke smoothly on the warm sand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Your necklaces are worth their weight in gold!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He went on, feeling with his toes for firm footing before he put his weight down. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his weight was on top of me, pinning me to the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It sagged as he settled his weight on it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I heft the knife in my hand, taking just long enough to get a feel for the weight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was letting me have the worst of it—getting the weight off his mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up in the Semper Fi bunk bed this morning to the realization that I'm going to need to pull my own weight. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Health note: Astonishing weight increase, due no doubt to the anxiety which my dear mother’s increasing unpleasantness is causing me. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed in a similar manner but staying far enough back that I didn’t put my weight on logs he was using. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Oyster shells crunched under the weight of the ambulance, and white dust trailed behind it like smoke. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She tried to shift her weight to ease the pressure on her flawed side. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to sit up, but his hands were on her shoulders, and all his weight. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the weight vanished from the horse’s ribs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the waters rose, First Turkey almost didn’t make it, as the weight of all those seeds slowed her down. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This time I shifted my weight and reached for it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sefia shrugged her pack higher on her shoulders, feeling the weight thump against the small of her back, and weaved seamlessly into the crowd. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I started to move back toward the waiting area, but Stick shifted his weight and locked his arm tighter around me, keeping us in place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slept lightly, waking at the first sounds of fussing, at the slightest shifting of weight, so I could fetch the ice and tinctures before Luke became fully conscious and the pain gripped him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most large early clocks are driven by a weight which slowly descends: grandfather clocks had to be tall in order to give the weight space in which to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like Miss Honey, she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The one called Cinder sheathed his sword with the sound of a tree cracking under the weight of winter ice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and assessed its weight, bouncing it up and down a little. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groundsel, with no freedom to use his weight, screamed and kicked out as best he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally splashed down, he was off by forty miles, only because of an incorrect estimate in the capsule’s reentry weight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To stick up for himself and his brothers, Chris started to lift weights. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse’s body, I wonder?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ugly creature was on its back with its arms and legs flailing, but unable to move because of the weight of the stone on his chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It might be physically impossible, but I feel Bo’s eyes on my back like a weight. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All I had was the feeling, the weight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He did not look as tall as Ugwu remembered; he had put on some weight and his thin neck had filled out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon Smith went into the track secretary’s office to see the weight postings for the Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up, ready to hurl all my weight against the table. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could remember the feeling of the hard claws as they dug into his flesh, the weight of the bird and the sound of its caawing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The story is almost certainly untrue, but Galileo did do something equivalent: he rolled balls of different weights down a smooth slope. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down to the basement and lifted some weights for a couple of hours. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They chose a big orle, so big that the strongest field hands bent their backs under its weight. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cruelly he leaned his full weight upon the weasel’s rasping throat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Shifting the weight of the bag to my left hand, I tear a four-inch hole in the corner with my right. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maisie was eighteen months old, but her weight was like a bundle of rags. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They squeezed it, twisting it at the ends until it regained its natural weight. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Smith loaded weight onto his back, boosted an exercise rider aboard, and turned him loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Contact the right people, and you could get hold of a special capsule, a simple pill guaranteed to take off all the weight you wanted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he’d be dead halfway through forgive” Big Bolliger said as he dropped a hatchet, a switchblade, and his preferred weapon—a thick chain weighted with a heavy padlock—into Rotty’s expectant hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But overhead the snowflakes became sparse and floated down slowly on their own weight, now that the wind was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at us, shrugged, and hauled it away down the hall, staggering under its clumsy weight. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had lost a lot of weight that fall. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous interstate trucks make use of the roads and by their very weight and speed increase the maintenance costs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though I were carrying around a mysterious, unexplained burden or weight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s critical that we stay within the weight limit, or our oxen will be overtaxed. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sheriff doesn’t notice how she’s shifted her weight back, putting a few more inches of space between the two of them, but I do. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the weight chart over the scale. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relief workers bring cameras and take pictures of the children, holding little name signs, now that they have gained enough weight to be recognizable. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“To die buried under the weight of my own gold.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I heard the click of the lamp, saw the light leaping over the walls, and felt his weight drop onto my bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now the extra weight did not alter her rhythmical gait, but men’s eyes no longer pursued her curves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome and I both felt the weight of the obligation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because of my weight and my big mass of curly hair that the kids made fun of, and because I was younger than the others, I was an easy target for Addison. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he understood what was going to happen to the little owls if he did his job properly, and it weighted him with an aching and unshakeable sorrow. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the slight weight, the tight grip of the claws on her finger, and gently moved him onto her shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He cuts his hair really short and loses weight. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And now each day, out on the Yard, I felt this weight and saw this beauty, not just as a matter of theory but also as demonstrable fact. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, high on the seventeenth floor of the building, an explosion blew out a shower of glass and concrete, and she had disappeared under their weight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was aching now—too many late nights and too much time with his weight on it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing, instead of his little black bag, had with him a long leather one, something like a cricketing bag; it was manifestly of fair weight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Under this dark weight the walls leaned, under it the ceiling, with a great crack like lightning in its center, sagged. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of it was “live load,” meaning weight that changes over time, as when a train passes over a bridge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The sight of the dark bruises, some as big as an iron across her back, lingers on the inside of my eyelids, each blink heavy with the weight of it all. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Despite daily maintenance, there was a very real danger that any given rope might pull loose under body weight. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you give me your pack, I’ll carry it back to town . . .” “Oh no you won’t,” she growled, sliding her arms through the straps and hunching the weight up into place. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing to hold it up, the staircase began to bend under the weight of the children crowding on it, and then it swung down and fell with a huge crash. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ball of muddy strings, but without weight, fluffy but terrible in its malevolence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His weight was always in the wrong place, every step such a jolt that after a while he found himself feeling his way forward, not picking his feet up at all. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sensitive to the weight and meaning of letters and words, she wanted even her name to set her apart. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her words hit me like a ten-pound weight in the chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Still, I bear most of my weight with my left arm and try to push with my feet whenever possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Ruiz has lost some weight since we saw her last,” Caroline said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the bridge collapsed under its own weight and plunged into the water with a hissing roar. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to gain weight just breathing the air in here.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before I have a chance to consider the weight of what I just said, Rae turns back to me and smiles like I just offered her the galaxy or something. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And she learned how he tortured his body to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned all of his considerable weight against the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Scoob forgot he was even carrying it, though, come to think of it, his shoulders are hurting from the extra weight. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a mystery to me how his stick-like legs supported the weight above them, but they did, though they moved in surprising ways at times, as if his knees could bend in any direction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emily concentrated on the slap of their feet, the weight of her backpack bumping against her, urging her faster, faster, faster. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One has a cavalry sword hanging from his belt, and after I put him down I unsheathe the sword and test its weight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Now I see what it means that power is like weights in a balance, and when someone gains power someone else loses power. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For conditioning class, we did tear-offs in weight lifting on Tuesdays. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Arthur wandered the picnic grounds in bow tie and suspenders, a porkpie hat pulled low over his forehead and the enormous weight of his camera slung from a thick leather thong around his neck. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The aunties hug one another not because they are freed of the weight of Clairmont house and all it symbolized, but out of tragedy and empathy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She felt weak and light-headed, yet strangely resolute, as if a great weight had lifted from her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The regent’s word carried weight at Crown Mines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearily she hoisted her rucksack again and set her foot on the next flat stone—but before she even transferred her weight, she stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Percy followed, staggering under the weight of the old lady, who was definitely getting heavier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She takes a deep breath, the weight of the world on her shoulders. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had not felt one moment free from the tension, a weight of savage fear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I understood you committed her only because of the weight loss. This is news to me." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

You could change your name, age, sex, race, height, weight, voice, hair color, and bone structure. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country’s cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Catelyn heard the knight groan as the sellsword lifted his blade with both hancls and drove it down and in with all his weight behind it, under the arm and through the ribs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Plagued by a sense of sin, did she feel that Fard’s accusations had weight? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As if time had slowed down as it does for the dying, I watched him loll his weight forward, sliding into an easy lope, head tilted, coming toward me in a casual arc. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt hot and uncomfortable under the weight of the jackets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had feared that he would have barely strength to lift his master alone, and beyond that he had expected to share in the dreadful dragging weight of the accursed Ring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had lost a lot of weight, the dress hung in loose folds on her frail body, her eyes were dead. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rests heavily on my shoulder, perhaps a fifth of my weight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were senior citizens now, their hair graying and shoulders curving, a sign of the decades and maybe also the weight they’d carried for future generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For dive-bombing training, he had a $1 handheld sight consisting of an aluminum plate with a peg and a dangling weight. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I feel the weight of Lucy’s cat, Riot, settle in on top of my feet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I can imagine the feel of his hands, the weight of them, reassuring and protective. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you keep your weight up, I’ll bet you could go on another ten years.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we swung the machetes and axes, their weight would send us flying into the bushes, where we would lie for a bit and rub our aching shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other ropes snap pretty quick from the sudden shift in weight and I cover my head and press myself away as the silage rolls start to tumble. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He comes to expect the weight of their flatware in his hands, and to keep the cloth napkin, still partially folded, on his lap. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The overseer, startled by this sudden obstructing body, planted squarely in the doorway, turned away from the door, picked up a two-pound weight from the counter, and hurled it at the fleeing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next three hours, pinned under the terrifying weight of massive heartache, he watched the color of the rectangle change from orange to red to purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two ugly boys who must have been his sons went before him, struggling with the weight of a heavy metal shield as tall as they were. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stepped over beside August, letting my elbow touch her arm, needing the weight of her next to me; and there was May’s flashlight, shut off and sitting on the wet ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony helped her to stand, and arm in arm at first, and then with Lola’s weight on Briony's shoulder, they made their way across the clearing toward the bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One cat, with all my weight behind it He could give her a quick clean death, at least. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Torricelli compared the weight and pressure of the air to the weight and pressure of water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As for weight, the men were in line with the national average, but the women typically said they weighed about twenty pounds less than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I stand still, and every part of me is still, like it weighs more than it used to, only the weight is not unpleasant. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

No more than five minutes later the bedsprings sagged under new weight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After a few moments my back began to ache with the pressure of supporting her weight and my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now she lacked weight, gravity, she was less than the air. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Merry did not like this talk of wild men and poisoned darts, but quite apart from that a great weight of dread was on him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In this case, he wrote, in a draft text, the volume and weight of the water displaced correspond to the volume and weight of the ball, according to Archimedes’ principle—except they don’t. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Aside from the fact that his hair was thinning and he’d put on weight and grown a beard, he was the unmistakable, broad-shouldered, swaggering Bobby Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled off another round of weights, but JP was struggling because he started laughing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rowan and Citra were pleased to see that his opinion carried a great deal of weight. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Vividly they came before him; he could have reached up and touched them, could feel the weight and slow slide with which The Mammoth Book for Boys would come out and slither down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Or at least get the weight off the balloon. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, we’d hold on and swing really hard and try to make it to the other side. If we use our weight, I’ll bet we could reach that ledge.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His great weight was pushing, chest to chest, against Bigwig’s. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our arms strained under the awkward weight, dragging it around to the back gate, through the yard, and finally in the back door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let his weight rest against his rake as she began dragging the statue toward an oval bed of myrtle, beside the lamppost that flanked the brick pathway. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dicey felt a great weight settle on her shoulders. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t afraid of themselves; they weren’t crippled by the weight of what they didn’t know. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The removal of the trunk has displaced the weight, and the carriage is tipping a little on its axis, He reaches in the door and pulls her out. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not expecting even this simple trick from Sam, Gollum fell over with Sam on top, and he received the weight of the sturdy hobbit in his stomach. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He continued to do just that, maybe because he had carried the memories on his back for so long, he was afraid their weight would crush him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Other men lie in stretching bandages with heavy weights hanging from the end of the bed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His recently increased weight and the bloating caused by the inoperative valve made any position other than standing or lying down somewhat awkward. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is in an earlier phase, or a later one: the soft green tweeds and tailored blouses of her good- taste background, which now appear matronly on her, because she has put on weight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the weight of that ever goes away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The empty weight of them feels like Maman's did before she died. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The weight of the iron ball causes the material on which it is sitting to stretch and sag slightly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To make races more competitive, tracks schedule “handicap” races, in which a racing secretary, also called a track handicap- per, assigns more accomplished horses higher weights, or imposts, than less accomplished horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Sandoval produced a reporter’s notepad and pen from her pocket and turned the full weight of her somber gaze upon me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His words fell into Lyra’s mind like heavy stones, and Will, too, felt the deadly weight of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pick up Garrett in my arms, and although I barely have the strength to hold up my own weight, I bear his as well, as we make our way toward the campsite. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is a small thing, but it transforms his entire face and lightens the weight on my chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ekon stared at the blade, feeling its new weight in his palm. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her body was warm and soft as a pile of pillows against my arm where she leaned her weight, and her feet, in their high, spiked heels, dragged foolishly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be in the mobile home on his hard mattress and feel the gentle weight of the tattered blanket press against his body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my dear boy. Do not take that weight upon your shoulders, or you shall never rise from your knees.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a weight lift off my chest as I finally regained my breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As easy as pushing the weight of the truth serum aside in my mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then she shifts her weight and lifts her foot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Pollard’s weight sank hard into his right stirrup, and he pushed off against it, trying to avoid falling over Exhibit’s shoulder and down into the dirt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face turned red, and Bran could see cords in his neck bulging as he strained against the weight above him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought he was just another Jake Edwards throwing his weight around. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The night dragged on, the heavy sense of anticipation like a weight on his chest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now, imprisoned with the weight of my childhood ever more dismally heaped upon me, I longed for that earlier stint with the arms spread wide. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept a rack of weights by the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a weight thrumming through the floorboards in a low song, and that was how Jam knew the painting was done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then we flipped and even though we’re the same weight, he had a harder time carrying me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He claims I rode inside the canoe, at my own request, because the weight of the oddly shaped battery tipped the boat dangerously. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that moment, I had felt the weight of somebody else’s living, throbbing, unimaginative hatred on my body. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When I open the dormitory door, a weight drops into my stomach. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I felt then, in that moment, the insubstantial weight of my sixteen years in a way I’d never felt before. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Toby looked at the dirty Deuce floor, trying not to feel the weight of Jimmy’s stare. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We stand by the curb, and I shift my weight from one foot to the other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the early days of space travel, one consideration in choosing astronauts was weight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now all the weight had left him, the monumental and oppressive fatigue. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He drew the other upon his lap, which weight made the sofa creak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Hermione moaned, darting out from behind her tree, seizing the rope too and adding her weight to make Buckbeak move faster. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even with assistance, their master could not lift his own weight; it took all his failing strength to roll onto one side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After the crowd onshore watched Baker dump a weighted object into the river, the ship traveled around a bend to the site of the old jail, on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped, catching it and pulling down with all my weight, feeling it give. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The difference in weight would be written off as trash, which defied precise weighing, or laid to a fault in the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Most of the untrained ones are not that strong and can’t hold your weight for much time. Just get to the next rooftop and let ’em free. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Young Smokies had all kinds of competitions, carrying weights or riding double, but no one was ever that stupid. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s voice is solemn and gives equal weight to each word. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

During the night I heard him talking numbers out of his dreams: weights, days, distances.... The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima sets out paper plates that have to be tripled to hold the weight of the biryani, the carp in yogurt sauce, the dal, the six different vegetable dishes she’d spent the past week preparing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or has she already started to slip away, leaving the weight of the world on my sister's fragile shoulders? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He tries to lift it and then fake falls under its weight. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How’s those feel? Put a little weight on to make sure.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Catchpenny rogues! I will not be exchanged for such a trifle. My mere weight? A paltry treasure you could carry on a shoulder? How dare you insult me!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart jumped in my chest, then it felt like it fell down into my stomach and lay there like a huge weight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually he managed it by leaping up, getting one paw over the top of the thing, and with his weight, snapping the twine that held it to the roof. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He felt weighted down by the centuries of time since the Pyramids had been built. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking more slowly now, because of the weight of the water, they made their way back through the campsite. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"My specialties are languages and weights and measures. Cooks must know weights and measures." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother,” Samuel cried, “here’s our chance to scratch our name in the First National Bank! Don’t throw the weight of your tongue in the path of fortune. Please, Mother!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Olive was not a tall woman and at that age she had begun to put on weight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His arm adjusted itself to the weight of the missile and drew back. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We did an hour of exercise, some combination of roadwork, skipping rope, calisthenics, or shadow boxing, followed by fifteen minutes of body work, some weight lifting and then sparring. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penny was soon puffing, struggling with the weight of her pails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to take a step, but my legs weren’t strong enough to carry my weight. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The solid weight of Carmine is in my arms, his hot breath, slightly sour and sticky from his morning milk, on my cheek. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was Lyra’s little canvas rucksack, and from the weight of it he knew without looking that the alethiometer was still inside it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m more than capable of pulling my weight.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That’s what Pastor thinks, and you know that his opinion holds some weight.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can still feel his grip on my arm, as if he’s still here, shackling me to the trunk with his hands and his weight, but he’s not. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost weight, as most of them had, and his body was covered with welts and sores. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was very anxious about him, and I was powerless to act; my feet, and my hands, and my brain were weighted, so that nothing could proceed at the usual pace. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

No longer a ropy mass of gangly arms and gangly legs, but now a big, firm, curvy woman, exulting in her weight and height, and it made her imposing, a presence that drew the eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And since he couldn’t bring himself to leave such big news in a message, he went to bed with the weight of SJ knowing before Mama on his chest. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I at least had the advantage of surprise I threw myself at Nick's legs, and all his weight collapsed on me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bedrock had fractured under the power of the blast, and could no longer support the anchor’s weight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All the while surging from my gut: fire sourness weight anger loneliness confusion embarrassment shame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And all the weight, all the weariness of it, had recapitulated itself in his body; he felt the physical burden. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And now the town of Manifest was crushed under the weight of that love. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If he tried to walk, when his weight came down, his feet sank and just kept on going—two, three feet. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket’s weight and warmth. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d hung the sacks of beans on hooks in the hallway, just inside our secret entrance, but a few seams split under the weight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed to feel the weight of her gaze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of stuff weight lifters wear down in Miami or out at Venice Beach, baggy track pants with baggy sweatshirts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As he cut, he put more and more weight on his left hand, making my neck twist to the right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I see Mother’s body weight shift, like she will change into a wall if she needs to. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He shouted to the clerk of scales to hang on, raced to the bathroom, emerged a moment later with his pants still at half mast, and made weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything dark and churning, but slow churning instead of fast, and this great weight pulling you down, like it’s attached to your feet even if you can’t see it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On Earth, for all practical purposes, mass and weight are the same and so the terms can be treated as synonymous, at least outside the classroom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a plow horse, big and slow and clumsy, but better able to bear his weight than the little garrons the rangers rode. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A person can become a part of you as real as your arm or leg, and even though Jesse is dead, I still feel the weight of that phantom limb. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sheer exhaustion of the day felt like a weight that dragged her toward the ground with each passing moment. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The webbing was constructed of the lightest possible stone to lessen the weight on the ribs. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Then I grip the trigger, feeling the gun’s weight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The record book listed his growth, weight, speed, strength, and grades in National Socialist tests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was dragging this emaciated body that was still such a weight. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then remembering the weight of W.E. on her neck and shoulders and the pain as he yanked her hair in terror, she started to count out another dollar, but that would leave her only thirty-eight. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They packed sand around the edge into a high wall, stretched the evening gown, which they had ripped open to make it bigger, across the hole, and weighted the dress’s edges with rocks. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Many also inspected the height and weight of a potential bug boy’s siblings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But although the car was weighted down the wagon was almost empty. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The weight of how many atmospheres is above me now? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I try to rob the words of their weight by concentrating on the letters. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back, looked at the ceiling, and pressed the weight back up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The front turned in more. Too much weight on the back.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shay’s feet slipped backward, but she leaned her weight into the pole, keeping it wedged under the cross-tie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In some strange way my eyes have cleared. A weight is off me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was because her heart couldn’t hold on to the weight of two terrible secrets. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It weighted her body, holding it on the bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his jaw moves at the mention of Warren; he shifts his weight from one foot to the other. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I felt the weight of an ear pendant on my right ear even before I reached up and touched it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the crushing weight on my lungs lifted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In his twenty years as a Marine he had gained weight each year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I felt the weight of a son in a Mexican family. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had never seen trees like this before: white bark and branches so delicate she could not understand how they supported the weight of those leaves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was nearly two pounds in weight, a tribute to Brother Alf’s angling skills combined with the youthful muscles of Matthias and their joint enthusiasm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It's weird how writing them down gives them weight. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I shifted my weight from one leg to the other to get the blood flowing again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With one exception I've been the same weight for ten years. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But even his devotion can’t keep this weight off my shoulders. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the weights out, Smith had no reason to hide him any longer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scale attached to the rig gave the weight of the animal: 190 pounds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They both struggled to raise their heads above the water, but the weight of their leg and neck irons pulled them down. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Sam sent two girls home from practice, telling them they had gained weight and not to come back until they lost ten pounds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The fiasco placed heavy pressure on Lawrence, whose outwardly sunny disposition concealed how close he had been brought to physical collapse by the weight of his responsibilities and the strain of constant traveling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I zipped past university students busy with their weight workouts and Zumba classes in full swing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had changed into so many animals, she wasn’t sure why one more transformation should amaze her...but suddenly he’d grown into his weight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But he felt different, even with the familiar weight of his pearl-handled revolvers at his hips and a rifle on his back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were wise men who retained the knowledge of tribal history and custom in their heads and whose opinions carried great weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob’s face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I got it,” Z said as he took a step back and transferred his weight to the front of his feet like athletes did when they needed to be ready to move fast. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The young mouse was amazed at the weight and strength of Foremole’s paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The reality began to sink in, and I slumped under its weight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hefts it for weight, reads the name of the sender on the envelope and the address, looks at the handwriting, and studies the postmark and the date. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tole Biddy I was right, and eating my good food would make her lose weight. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She balanced her weight on the banisters with her hands and planted her boots against Wylan’s chest, kicking him backward into Jesper. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And he sits in the corner of the room while we lift weights. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to pull his weight in the chores. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like the weight of my air is tangible. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I unrolled the green ribbon and placed the gold disc in the palm of my hand, feeling its distinctive weight as I sent up a silent prayer of gratitude. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I put it in my mouth for a moment to feel the weight of it against my tongue, to hear it click along my teeth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She pretended to smile, and I pretended not to see it as I went by wrapped in a towel, stepping lightly, as if the floor would break under my weight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The weight of the doll in her hands brought memory rising up in Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I weren’t such a coward, or a Decker, I would lean against Rufus, shifting my weight against him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She felt the weight of Father’s palm on her covered head, resting there for a moment. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the chupacabras let go of Pita’s leg, I shoved the stake deeper into his skull with the full weight of my body behind it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Without saying another word, she hoists his arm around her shoulder and shifts his weight onto her. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in weeks and weeks, Harry was laughing: He could feel the weight of tension leaving him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and thirty-four is a lot of weight,” said Howard, “but Biscuit is a lot of horse.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shed more weight from his bony frame, dropping to an almost skeletal 115 pounds. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fela looked around nervously, shifting her weight from foot to foot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Mayor Clarkson approached city hall that morning, he carried with him the full weight of his city’s almost complete collapse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A stronger gust struck, lifting her slightly, taking some weight off the board, and one of the metal-detector lights flickered stronger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There was the fish, caught only by one fin, and its tail wildly thrashing and shining in the sun. There was the web, sagging dangerously under the weight of the fish.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The third voice added, “Like Huey said, ‘We should all carry the weight, and those who have extreme abilities will have to carry extremely heavy loads’ ” There were words thrown back and forth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack was selected to help carry the heavy kettle—a dangerous job because of its weight and hot contents. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We traveled slowly, stopping often to rest because our arms were not used to carrying so much weight for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But we pulled our weight in other ways. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This in turn put more weight on the left rear wheel, which slipped from its precarious purchase into the powder as well. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still feel a little weight in my limbs from the truth serum Cara, Caleb, and Matthew tested on me earlier, as part of our plan. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He is relaxed and happy, even though the stress of the war had caused him to lose so much weight that he looks like “a skeleton with clothes,” in the words of one friend. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She’s doing everything she can to be an easy passenger, but the fact is, there is only so much weight I can handle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, with the full weight of its military power in evidence, Blue Team issued an eight-point ultimatum to Van Riper, the eighth point being the demand to surrender. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But the whole time I was checking the yard, trying to see if Eddie was hanging by the weight bench or around the fence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The skeletons of the green trees curved under the elegant weight of the snow, bowing and twisting like ribbons in the wind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He can feel its tiny weight there, as though he has slipped it inside his own mind: a knot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I thought maybe she’d notice that I’d been lifting weights over the summer, that I was taller, that I really wasn’t a little boy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Richie brought home a mattress and put it in the basement, and now Ben had to sleep down there with the dog and Richie's free weights. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

His weight, thanks to a glandular disorder and 50-pound tumors, swung from a comparatively petite 400 pounds to 540 pounds, packed mostly in a monstrous quaking belly that won him the nickname “Ten Ton” Irwin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something flashed from the ledge—a slender, black chain with a metal weight at the end. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had to do something about that chain, the weight of it scraping her neck fur short. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of their heads, the heaviest part of their bodies, had flipped them over in their life vests. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the tension of the elders—their expectation, which weighted like a thick blanket over the crowd—was the most perplexing of all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want you to continue working for me without truly understanding the weight of what you were doing.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled himself to his feet taking his weight on the wrists, and went to his duty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A model called the Nylon 66, no longer in production, it was a favorite of Alaska trappers because of its light weight and reliability. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his weight the top of the door was pressed slightly outward and the upper of the two leather hinges gave slightly where the outer nail held it to the body of the hutch itself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Sadie sat in a metal patio chair, smoking a corncob pipe and giving me instructions on how to put my weight into that shovel to turn up the dirt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi shifted her weight from one foot to the other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked about as heavy as Lucas’s weights. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He did not want to strap it to his back too early, then have to stand around with its weight burdening him until his turn came to crawl down the cargo net. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She was not rising to the oncoming seas. The weight of the ice was having its effect, and she was becoming more like a log than a boat.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s Lexus SUV groaned under the weight of all their groceries. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

These would support the weight of the stones and maintain the shape of the arch until the mortar was dry. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You put on some weight arid it suits you. I maka.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The current best estimate for Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons, a difference of only about 1 percent from Cavendish’s finding. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He walked on, up the hillside, and with each step the weight on him grew. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his belly and tried to lift his weight by his hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He thought of Inej lying still on the table, her slight weight in his arms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If they’d added a square in this corner and one more paisley on the other two, the weight of the whole design would have worked better. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The creature dropped its weight on the prisoner with a sickening crunch and set about slowly mauling his shoulder as he lay there shrieking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This time she throws her weight into it, trying to prevent him from leaving. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And though the words meant nothing to me, or almost nothing, I felt their weight, the deep groove they made in the air of time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tally shifted her weight on the board uncomfortably. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But I feel so good in the boots, my body relaxes, and without thinking I place equal weight on both feet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He thought of the great weight of stone above them; he wanted to stand up; he wanted to raise his arms above his head; he wanted much more space than there was.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well”—Trotter shifted her weight to her left foot, keeping her eyes on the carrots she was scraping—“William Ernest is in the living room watching Sesame Street.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He murmurs an apology and tries to shift my weight so that he isn’t putting any pressure on my knee. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She drove herself into a speeding train/jumped without a parachute/strapped on a weight belt and dived into the ocean. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to make weight,” he said, trying to force confidence into his voice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had never regained the weight he had lost during the weeks he had spent in the hospital after his heart attack, and he was always tired, his face pale and gaunt, his eyes watery. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cicero wrote: In discussion it is not so much weight of authority as force of argument that should be demanded. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law is be cool, be tough, play ball, and use books for weight training—not reading. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of history’s greatest horses had faltered under 128 pounds or more; Seabiscuit had set two track records under 133 pounds and four more under 130 while conceding massive amounts of weight to his opponents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the weight of the fish behind the skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought his weight would break the cart to pieces, but I was wrong. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His top was all bull—hair and hide and muscle leading to a head so large he should’ve toppled over just from the weight of his horns. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They renovated it three years ago and practically quadrupled its size, putting in basketball courts, a saltwater pool, shiny new cardio equipment, and rows and rows of free weights. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I pushed it into the dirt and stepped all of my weight onto it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It falls right into the flower, and its head bobs down with the weight. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here three city blocks were crowded with vendors calling their wares while eager shoppers studied merchandise or haggled over weights and prices. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

My moonstone badge warps from a circle into an oval, Department of Supernatural Investigations engraved above the image of an evenly weighted balance. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Their weight sinks it almost out of sight. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As far as Dell was concerned, Cheddar could pull his own weight back there. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But Pet hadn’t moved; it just kept watching them with its implacable face, its weight loud loud loud in the floorboards, translating directly to Jam’s feet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He has lost much weight and I wish he would eat a little of the shorwa and rice that Farzana jan cooks for him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Supported against the corner by his weight, she once again clasped her hands behind his neck, and rested her elbows on his shoulder and continued to kiss his face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just this season I’d finally been able to let them hang to their full weight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He worked tirelessly in the weight room, his red cheeks bulging and his body vibrating. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal flexed and bowed under his slender weight as he wedged the toes of his sneakers into the diamond shaped gaps. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even Ripred, by far the most hardened of the group, seemed to hunch down under the weight of the situation. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She weighed herself once per week, and although her weight did not fluctuate more than the three pounds her doctor assured her was normal, she took pains to maintain herself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her toes lost contact with the wall, and her stomach lurched as she felt the pull of her weight and the rope. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward, her weight pressing into him, and as her feet gradually slipped down the stone, their lips met. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She lifted slowly, taking the weight on her arms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“What if it finds that I’m...not innocent?” she asked, and once again she felt the weight of guilt pulling her down. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Standing there, they all looked alike: too much weight in the front—for that matter, too much weight in the behind—and dressed for a deacon’s funeral. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the handle, leaned my weight against it, and staggered as it snapped off at the base. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I will consider your words, Ophelia, for they are weighted with wisdom,” said Hamlet, closing the anatomy book and ending our discussion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Brienne bound it with a velvet tie and pulled a padded cap down over his ears, to cushion the weight of his helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight, looking down at me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although there were many limbs, they looked rubbery and not substantial enough to bear any weight, so it had to be a swimmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

To a physicist, mass and weight are two quite different things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In similar fashion, the skeleton finds it doesn’t have to support any weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope they understand,” Minli said to herself, shifting the weight of the water jug on her shoulders uncomfortably. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A knight in his full armour of those days, or at any rate during the heaviest days of armour, was generally carrying as much or more than his own weight in metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the car unstuck and crashed to the ground with a groan of metal as its roof pancaked under its weight. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When asked to account for the time I’ve spent in Paris, I reach for my carton of ticket stubs and groan beneath its weight. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The earth shook, and he felt the headstone begin to shift, beneath his weight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Most boards gave a little as they adjusted to a rider’s weight, bouncing like a diving board, but this one was absolutely firm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He wore weighted shoes to strengthen his wasted leg muscles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant threw his weighted net and Percy collapsed to the floor, hopelessly entangled as the poison thickened around him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“My name’s Esmerelda, but everyone calls me Esme,” she told him when she followed him into the weight room one morning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have been able to put into words why, but it felt like a new weight had settled on my shoulders. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The Qartheen lined the streets and watched from delicate balconies that looked too frail to support their weight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘The legs of Men will lag on a rough road, while a Dwarf goes on, be the burden twice his own weight, Master Boromir!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad has his old weights in the basement. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Meme felt the weight of his hand on her knee and she knew that they were both arriving at the other side of abandonment at that instant. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And now that the dead dog was gone, he assured her, “The little garden is worth its weight in gold.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a final wave of his hand, and walked off at a surprising pace; but Frodo thought the old wizard looked unusually bent, almost as if he was carrying a great weight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Smoke has weight—its layers press down on me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When he put his weight on it, a shower of silver needles gushed up the length of the calf and went off in the knee. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether or not this heartening intelligence took some of the weight off Mr. Wilson’s troubled shoulders, Dad never made entirely plain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the arrests I had deliberately cut down my weight, in anticipation of prison, where one should be lean and able to survive on little. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string snapped tight with the weight of the devilfish. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that great weight that had been lifted for just a moment would come crushing down again, worse than before because I wasn’t ready for it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Half of them had collapsed, pulled down by the weight of the grey moss that draped them and the thick black vines that snaked upward from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His hands trembled from the weight of it, or perhaps from the cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sun pressed against her with an almost tangible weight. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I lost weight and couldn’t eat and was near suicide. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it exists—a weight in my hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuming, I went at my opponent like a maddened bull seeing red, punching the best I could given the immense weight of the gloves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” replied the boy, the weight of that trust etched on his brow. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The man had paused in the road and hoisted the wooden jiggeh higher on his back, shifting the cumbersome weight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The machete stabbed past his head, leaving a burn on his cheek, and Blue Eyes’s weight came off him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could still feel the weight of his hand on my shoulder. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They find their own audience and stand or fall of their own weight. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staggering back under the weight of the thing, Ged gave a short, hoarse scream. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I fell in and out of sleep under a strange dream of awful weight that I had to move to free myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His subgravity walk teetered across the broken ground, kicking rocks to right and left under his weight in noiseless puffs of gray dust. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The fat man by the door shifts his weight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He could go without breakfast, graze at lunch, and barely touch dinner, all while working twelve-hour days of constant activity, and still his weight never fluctuated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The plastic covering is concave with the weight of the rain, and the alligator has slumped to the ground. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with his weighted blanket, the ticking clock, and the hawk’s eyes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each step groaned and creaked under his weight; he might’ve stopped for fear of falling through the old wood if he weren’t leaving such an awkward situation below. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The emptiness upsets him, but the weight of the camera is solid, reassuring in his hands. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dugout canoe seems such a fragile bird to carry that weight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With tack, he only just made the weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get my treatments, I take my medicine, I drink my body weight in milk shakes, I get to see Barb and Julie, I leave until my next flare-up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, I shifted my weight from one foot to the other and learned to make quick-cooking meals. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were reports that he had lost a lot of weight, and that maybe he was losing his mind. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain sagged limply beneath the mountainous weight of his despair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then he adds, “And more important, it’s the weight. How much do you weigh, Jessica? One twenty? One thirty?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Cracking open the ice on the lake, she weighted the pieces with stones and sent them to the bottom. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His core is unbalanced; worse, his weight isn’t even between his legs. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s gaining weight,” moaned Smith, “and we aren’t feeding him enough to satisfy a full-grown canary bird.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bug boys enjoyed the weight break until they rode their fortieth winner or reached the anniversary of their first win, whichever came first. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the weight was off his feet, an ecstasy of relief spread upward through his knees and he knew he would not move again that night, however disappointed Nettle might be. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He opened the door—I was helping Lucas with his weights in the living room—and he came in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The killing fields of Chicago, of Baltimore, of Detroit, were created by the policy of Dreamers, but their weight, their shame, rests solely upon those who are dying in them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight from left to right, right to left, as she leads me forward. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Atlas, but I could hear him groaning in the distance, still laboring under the weight of the sky, just beyond the fortress. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It took one's breath away to think of the weight that could make a footprint like that. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At length, though, the stand-in grew impatient and began shifting his weight from paw to paw. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He put his arms around his wife, leaned on her, and tried to put his weight on the sore foot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the weight of her mother’s hand on her forehead, the caress of her whisper in her ear. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So long as the meat was seared, they gulped down several times their own weight every day, and at last began to grow larger and stronger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I chose smaller pieces, hoping my weight could control the lurch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed to bow under the weight of what I was saying. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put all my weight onto the brake pedal and we slid sideways to a stop. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat down on his twin bed, the only piece of furniture in his room besides a Goodwill dresser, and the lumpy mattress groaned under his weight. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I pick up my screw gun and drive screws with my left hand, but the pressure is uneven, and with my weight gathered on one foot, my balance is poor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Davi stood before her parents in front of their hut, hair disheveled, face swollen, shoulders slumped, arms hanging like dead weights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a crescent moon curve they're a half-moon, the blades weighted and sharpened on both sides to easily cut in either direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She could still feel the weight of the fork in her hands. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He filled his days with calisthenics, weight lifting, and running, often with a load of rocks on his back. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose halfway up in the saddle, holding Seabiscuit back, his leg straining under his weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of the paddle itself was too much for him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of him, bodies touching, her arms out, his hands around her waist They negotiated the turns without words, Tally shifting her weight gradually, waiting for David to follow her lead. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All day I work, my back bent, just like my mother’s, and even when I try to stand tall, my shoulders hunch over with invisible weight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama shifted her weight from foot to foot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then the weight of all my suffering sinks my body again as water closes over my face and seeps into me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I lean my whole weight on her to get up the stairs, like some part of me is broken, which I guess it is. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I heave my full weight on it, and the rivets pop loose. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The weight forced a side of the mattress down and Mother twisted her bed lamp to beam down on the book. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wood around Taninli, the trees bowed down with the weight of the Queen’s sorrow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My thighs tensed as the weight grew more substantial. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I make to push past her, my scythe still an awkward weight in my hands, but she blocks me once again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The entire weight of his equipment, he guessed, was more than eighty-five pounds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stop and adjust my backpack, shifting the weight of an old clunker of a laptop. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I just stagger to my feet while she clings, Max supporting some of her weight, and he helps me get her to the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The stocky guard glares at me, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, then squares himself to the other guard. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The bed frame was nearly twice her body weight and the ridges were tearing cruel welts in her palms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I slip my legs out of bed, nervous about how they will bear my weight and find them strong and steady. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s the resplendent quetzal,” I said, shifting my weight from one foot to another. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She was on her own, weighted down with the staggering burden of sole responsibility for keeping her children and herself alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Beside them are my batons, short wooden clubs with a metal spike in the weighted end and a leather thong at the bottom, a last resort in the case of a melee. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the toy and his shoulders sagged under some invisible, impossible weight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She rose before dawn each day and lifted sacks weighted with stones many times with each arm before she put the kettle over the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She thought she could not support his weight or bear to see his wound again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Iorek himself was grinding and hammering a fist-sized stone, having rejected several until he found one of the right weight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jethro straightened his shoulders a little under the weight upon them. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been idle in his stall for much of the time since the match, and his weight had crept up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the man’s weight by his suspenders, idly, ever so casual, flicking a finger in the black face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the weight of their regard, but I stand my ground. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The full weight of our feeling for each other hangs between us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fear these women bore the cold weight of the dead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My left foot throbbed from the fall, so I leaned my weight on the right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was mostly dead weight, and I felt his head bounce softly on my shoulder and his body sag against me like a big damp loaf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body weight is centered in first position, her legs and feet shift, slide, independent of her trunk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She stepped into the room quietly and sat so lightly on the bed, I barely felt her weight next to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Mike was a junior at Permian, his brother took him to meet David McWilliams, the Texas head coach, and an assistant later took Mike into the field house and showed him the weight room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor shifted his weight on the bat and something poked his leg. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders slumped, as if the weight of the great maester's chain around his neck had become too great to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The weight of his story froze us all in our place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My blade hit the base of Luke’s and I twisted, putting my whole weight into a downward thrust. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to meet it head-on, to prove I could withstand its weight, but after a few seconds something in me buckled, some inner force gave way, and my eyes dropped to the floor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The certainty of going had lifted a weight from Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He arranged his weight on his sore palms and followed her to the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

First it provided a basis for more accurately measuring the size and weight of atoms. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The heavy weight of it presses down on me in a force much greater than gravity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The air in the tavern had grown heavy, and the weight of the day pressed against my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accelerating hard under high weight burns vast reserves of energy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might be applauded, since we generally admire those who can escape taxes, were it not that the burden of this freedom falls with increasing weight on others. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They steadied the buckets with their hands, but the weight hung from the yokes on their shoulders. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if a heavy weight has just gotten a little bit lighter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even an aluminum cookset offered considerations of weight, compactness, thermal dynamics, and general utility that could occupy a mind for hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one resort. We must damage the web so fully and so rapidly, they cannot repair it nor will it hold their weight,” said Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I put all my weight on the rod thing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After a visit in which Winnie’s face looked drawn or tense, I would urge her to put on a bit of weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen the kicking feet and the two in black who now seize hold of them and drag downward with all their weight. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time after time, Kendra reacted quickly, shifting her weight to spoil their attempts to flip her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her legs felt heavy, as though weights had been tethered to them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lifting weights was a struggle with poor results; sets of twenty pull-ups became sets of four, on good days; and his coach pulled him out of the ring indefinitely because fighting would be impossible. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Turner leaned his weight against a fence post. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I caught it with one hand and when I opened my hand I saw the bullet and felt the weight of it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As he was rubbing his eyes, Nathan felt the full weight of two massive bodies pushing him up against the car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The chickens strutted and squawked, changing the weight distribution of the crate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By sheer weight and numbers, they pulled me down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lords and knights stepped aside silently to let her pass, and she felt the weight of their eyes on her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re still square,” said Harry, testing his leg gingerly; it shook violently as he put weight on it; he had sprained his ankle when the spider had dropped him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At 1000 g’s, the beam is still straight, but trees have become squashed and flattened; at 100,000 g’s, rocks are crushed by their own weight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the weight of being the reason his life was derailed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It will be a great weight off your soul,” said Septa Scolera. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She took some of his weight as they walked toward the great mud temple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I fought fiercely to get off that table but my shoulders were pinned down by the full weight of a large man. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked toward the pennant pole, I felt the weight of the crowd’s eyes on me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“An engineer has to study the rock above these pillars! If weight becomes concentrated on one of them, it’ll explode! The last time that happened, it tore one of our shuttles to pieces!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had lost weight on her face and shoulders, which had turned her from being a round person into a conical person. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the wind picked up a little and I noticed some­thing about the lifeboat: despite its weight, it floated lightly on the water, no doubt because it was carrying less than its capacity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The officers promised to search the river for Imogen’s body, but they also noted that if her body was weighted with stones, it wouldn’t surface easily. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I know I’m on my back, and there’s a heavy weight on my chest. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And gradually she stopped moving; the lifeline held fast, and she felt the weight and strength of the current pushing against her as she hung there in the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tromped back up the stairs, feeling as if I were carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The shift in weight caused the ice floe to dip into the black water, and Jack fell back down. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I would sooner have mine own weight in gold.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Otto was getting heavy on my back, and wherever his weight rested my muscles were becoming tight cords. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the full weight of what she was doing hit her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Uncle C grunted as he struggled beneath the weight of the sap being absorbed by his cottony self. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It takes such a very little flow to build up enough weight to turn a big wheel and generate enormous power. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he had known his weight, he was twelve years old, was several inches shorter, and weighed 110 pounds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One less canoe meant divvying up the cargo and redistributing the weight across the remaining canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

His cheeks were sunken; he’d lost a lot of weight and he needed a haircut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She lost too much weight so I stopped. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For Robert!" he shouted, and he came up snarling, lifting the frost-covered longsword with both hands and swinging it around in a flat sidearm slash with all his weight behind it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I was impressed it could maintain that speed with all the extra weight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added a book, tested the weight of his pack, and took it out again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was learning also to overyeast the bread and weight the mugs, so that much of what she served was merely air or iron. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph's new authority, brought light and happiness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of them hopped clumsily to the end of a branch, which squeaked and bobbed under its weight and sent it squawking into the air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since the day she’d gone to get her operation, she’d felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His leg was in a cast, raised and held by tongs strapped to several weights. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up straight and as I did so something inside my head moved like the weights on a doll’s eyes and it hit me inside in back of my eyeballs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Iron pieces a kilogram or half a kilogram on one plate indicated the weight of the food on the other. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Had grown comfortable with the weight of the device that had messed up the town. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I climb into the dinghy, a copper rowboat so small, it doesn’t seem to be able to hold its own weight above the waterline, much less mine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She clung to the baby and watched fearfully for the launch, moving her weight unconsciously from one foot to the other, shivering, breathing quickly, making a little moaning noise in her throat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The people from 12 are already getting slightly larger portions than the natives of 13 in an effort to bring us up to weight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Who could love this place—where no pine trees grow, no porch swing moves with the weight of your grandmother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sweat pours down between my bosoms, and my arms ache from the weight of the scythe. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, one Tuesday in December, at lunchtime, all at once he released the whole weight of his torment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She writes the number in the little green notebook that lives in the cabinet next to the antibacterial ointment, then flips through twenty-four weeks of humiliating recorded weights. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Staggering slightly under their weight, he managed to make his way out of the limelight to the edge of the room, where Ginny was standing next to her new cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I touch my hair and pull one out, thankful when the weight and mass of my hair stays put. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They leave, and I slowly sink back onto the gurney, the weight of everything pressing down on my entire body. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A father feels the weight of his son’s pain. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had been assigned just 109 pounds, and his jockey, Wayne Wright, had reduced himself half to death to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so thin and miserable I thought I could gain weight just from the smell alone. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brothers should have stayed on Ice and made him bring his weight for the whole game. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Undeterred by his weight she fed the hens, gathered eggs, fetched water, then sat at the table stringing dried mushrooms. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more jolly and cheerful than usual, and it is quite evident that last night’s work has helped to take some of the brooding weight off his mind. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But instead of the pain, I felt something just as bad—the fierce, living weight of terrifying guilt. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The weight of the jackets was making me sweat, and the revelation of Horse’s confession and the way the kids were acting was making me sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each step down felt heavier and heavier, like I’d grown or gained weight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And weight carried around the middle is more deleterious than extra pounds in the butt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Water, because of its weight, was the prime enemy, and jockeys went to absurd lengths to keep it out of their systems. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Aware that Compton’s background as a physicist would give his opinion special weight, Loomis invited him to spend a week at his private retreat on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When the weight of responsibility felt so heavy, leaving the yoke of the world behind seemed a better alternative. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I didn’t get my weight under control, I would probably die of sloth before I found the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Nat went aboard the Astrea, two sailors handled his gear for him, staggering under the weight of an extra sea chest. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the wagons that slowed them, lumbering along, axles creaking under the weight of their heavy loads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She flops back on the trampoline, and we all bounce slightly with her shifting weight. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To kind-of quote Ovid: “Tears at times have the weight of speech.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It's my morning routine, yet today it carries more weight than ever before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She held her breath, hoping that the cups of water at the edges of the well would weigh the cloth down, letting it take the weight of the key without collapsing into the well. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

If you want a workout, you don’t lift a book—you lift weights. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick shifted his weight from one foot to the other and crossed his arms. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He felt weighted down with sadness, as if there were stones tied to the hem of his robes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I let Richard try on my armor and have him fasten the belt around his waist so he can feel the weight of the sword, too. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jacob tries to crane his head around, under the weight of the leather shoe-sole, pinning his neck. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The two talents had a reassuring weight to them that had nothing to do with how heavy they were. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I know, Captain. It’s a weight, isn’t it? Well. You lead on as best you can. If you get nervous, call. But I don’t want us observed.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s as well groomed and finely dressed as ever, but weighted down with manacles, ankle shackles, tracking devices. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And Finn had borne the weight of his brother’s clenched fists, his long silences, his unspoken blame. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some larger cities coined their own currency, but outside those cities the money was only worth the weight of the metal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now he was holding himself upright only with his mouth, and he had to hang onto the key or then press it down again with the whole weight of his body, as necessary. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, and put my weight behind the door to swing it open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even without towing a lot of extra weight the skiff wouldn’t hold enough gas for the whole round trip. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As time went on he lost weight, suffered extreme fatigue, and experienced a peculiar muscular weakness, a characteristic effect of malathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to lose weight for you,” she said. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would sit on his grandmother’s old knees, almost cracking them with his weight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Helen, shifting her weight, asked, “Did you put your jacket on the sewing pile?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tip my weight forward just a little and fall, my jaw clamped around my screams, muffled and suffocated by my own fear. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Any one of them was a good prospect to grow up, put on weight and trim Dempsey. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He slashed across the giant’s path and Porphyrion collapsed into his makeshift throne, which crumbled under the giant’s weight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But the barbed wrapping wasn’t only for weight; Sigurd had knotted and arranged it so it made a net around the outside, to prevent exactly what Anya was attempting. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop thinking about the patch of warmth Yakov’s hand had left on my back, the heat and weight of his touch. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had even held the weight of the sky on her shoulders. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In seasons past, playing for Permian had meant routinely vomiting during the grueling off-season workouts inside the hot and sweaty weight room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They must have given her too much. She’s very small; they probably didn’t take her height and weight into account.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cow relieved of a great weight was landing on the fill with Janie before Tea Cake stroked in and crawled weakly upon the fill again. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The surface was level and solid and firm, and he easily kept his balance in the strange gravitational field where everything weighed only one sixth its earth weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sadness stays put, but I feel an ounce of the weight on my shoulders slowly drift away, and I inhale, breathing a little easier than I have in a long time. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It is said that Galileo demonstrated that Aristotle’s belief was false by dropping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the weight of the Walkman in my backpack. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I lean against it with all my weight, but nothing happens. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But eleven were just spam — which would have been great if I had been seeking a cheaper mortgage or a way to “lose that weight fast!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed an eternity before the Book reached her, but as its weight settled into her arms, she finally felt complete. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He almost succeeded, but at the very end he rested his weight on his legs and his knees buckled in a rubbery way just like a comedian I once saw trying to act drunk. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra trembled at the weight of Arose blows. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She sensed the weight of eyes on her, looking down from the windows upstairs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He's dark skinned, brown eyes, low haircut, full beard, earrings in both ears, no tattoos, average height, average weight, average dude. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He rolls us over so his body is pressing into mine, the weight of him, the weight of that other day, and Zephyr begins elbowing his way between us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After the first several miles I ceased to feel the weight on my head at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight pressed down on her, forcing her breath out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would have doubled over in pain, except that his weight was plastering me against my seat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once his foot slipped as he put his weight on it and his heart stopped in his chest, but the gpds were good and he did not fall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could sink like a stone into the earth and be swallowed whole by the weight of what happened here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His peg leg is stretched out comfy; his real one is carrying both the beat and the guitar’s weight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

David stepped on the boat, felt her rock quickly to his weight, jerking lightly against the ropes that held her to the slip-dock. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his right foot out, tentatively, not quite daring to put his full weight on it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I attach these to my belt, and feel the weight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Lanre’s power lay on him like a great weight, like a vise of iron, and Selitos found himself unable to move or speak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though it’s still early morning, the desert heat has set in, and I fidget under the itchy weight of the cloak I’ve taken to wearing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They shared a heavy blanket—the weight of it pressed against Hanako, but she liked it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m still amazed by its size and weight. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the hem, wanting to believe in its weight but knowing that custard was all that it hid. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A boy who was almost falling over from the weight of his backpack looked up at her and smiled. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know you’ve been moping around the house for the past four or five days. Moping and lifting weights.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the first-stage fuel tanks emptied, the G forces increased and pushed us back into our contoured seats at five times our normal weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pasha gave him his weight in gold,” my father would say, “and once again in jewels. And your great-great-great-grandfather returned home. He bought all the land around Ardestan.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He heard the cow shifting her weight by the shed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was in her heart, it seemed, a heavy and delicately balanced burden whose weight she did not want to assume by disturbing it one whit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He flattered her, telling her that she was losing weight and looking younger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had lost weight, though he looked stronger, with a lean and stringy muscular ferocity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A weight lifts from my chest and my left thigh, and then a light clicks on to my left. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As soon as it felt the loathsome scratching weight descend on its exposed haunches, it gave a loud panicked whinny and bucked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up speed, throwing his weight onto his huge front shoulders, crooked tail lifted behind him like a flag. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse raised his head and rolled his weight onto his chest, preparing to stand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you both keep adding to your sides of the scale, increasing the weight on each side in turn,” Isobel says, watching the gently swaying scale, “won’t it break?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sitting, he had seemed a more than normal-sized man, a powerful man, with the shoulders, the arms, the thick, crouching torso of a weight lifter—weight lifting was, in fact, his hobby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A few riders were naturally tiny enough to make weight without difficulty, and they earned the burning envy of every other jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kept tipping a little farther nose-downward, pulled by his weight as he hung in harness in the pit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight as if he were going to get up out of his wheelchair, but I knew that was impossible. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

More accurately, 105 of them lost weight just after they were born. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel light-headed, missing the weight of my headphones. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were a weight straining against her arm until she got home, and she took them straight upstairs to her mother’s studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As Jimmy raised it once more, his weight shifted and Toby kicked his body up, sending Jimmy to the ground. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The olive trees where they took cover were stunted, with matted branches hanging almost to the ground, as if the weight of their leaves was too much for them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His mass hung upon my arm, for he supported but little of his own weight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I brought my weight down on the rear-bar and pulled and rocked and levered the sledge back away from the edge of the crevasse. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They disagree on which social factors to emphasize and on how much weight to assign individual Spanish chronicles, but the outline seems not in serious dispute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her weight, however, was enough to knock the drakon off the side of the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Since her pregnancies she had put on weight, thickened in the waist, but her skin and hair were still beautiful and she was still an attractive woman. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin settled into Celia’s chair; Matt could hear the springs groan with his weight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horses carrying the kind of weight Seabiscuit was packing cannot afford to lose momentum. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always lost weight when he visited home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before long, he was thumping around the house, thin as a string bean, swallowing buckets of food to regain the weight he’d lost. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The net shuddered for a moment as the slack went out of it, and then the reel wound it in against the weight of the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it sounded Congolese in the way it rolled out with equal weight on every syllable—a pig in a sack—as if no single word wanted to take over the whole sentence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She sees the way those words have solemn weight...I have to do something. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Our problems went deeper than my hair and my weight. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’d remembered the shape of her eyes, but not the weight of them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t throw much weight on a halyard—that's one thing sure. But you’d do all right as ship’s clerk. You might work up to supercargo.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It'd have to lose weight ... a lot of weight. I can get rooms full of people working on these problems, if we decide to do this." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally felt the weight of his absence, after keeping it at a numb distance for many months. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Since farming created the conditions for swift demographic growth, farmers could usually overcome foragers by sheer weight of numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed to trigger some reaction in Trina, and she shifted away from the wall and put her weight fully on her feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The silence grew until it had the weight of age so hard to lift aside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jo read it thankfully, but the heavy weight did not seem lifted off her heart, and her face was so full of misery that Laurie asked quickly, “What is it? Is Beth worse?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck rose visibly when his weight was gone. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Derek would lose some weight, but he wouldn’t starve to death in that time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s under the weight of this revelation that I truly begin to break. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Pollard got his weight back under him, straightened the horse’s course, and galloped him under the wire first. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brace my legs and pull in the rope as fast as I can, but I am still nearly yanked off the rock shelf by the force of Helene's weight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I heard myself yelling as his weight came down on my leg. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he would stare at them, his head bowed under the weight of an excruciating hangover, and say, “What do you fellows think we ought to do?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drag his body out of here, weight him down, and dump him in the underground lake.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of the three boys, one was big — muscled like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He got a head like a Martian—his head takes up about sixty percent of his natural body weight! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the jar out the window and then leaned on the sash with all his weight. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I will,” I said, but I could tell by the heavy weight of her against my arm that she had finally fallen asleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lobster trap is an awkward thing to handle because the weight is all in the bottom. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone’s eyes widened as she felt the weight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day in Alice Manfred’s house, as he listened to and returned their banter, something in the wordplay took on weight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see that Julie had lost weight, but he never asked her if she was hungry, and if she was, she didn’t whine about it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And what weight should we assign each of the many inputs that affect a child’s outcome: genes, family environment, socioeconomic level, schooling, discrimination, luck, illness, and so on? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Though only half the height of the tallest eastern pines, the chestnut had a weight and mass and symmetry that put it in another league. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said without looking at her, and climbed up the stairs onto the train, my legs and fingers burning with Beau’s weight. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was a tiny thing, wrinkled and hairless, shrunken beneath the weight of a hundred years so his maester's collar with its links of many metals hung loose about his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My big sister is carrying the whole intellectual weight of the family now that she’s the first one to go to a four-year college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By this time we have a living room floor, hardwood, waxed by my mother down on her knees, polished with a long-handled weighted brush that she pushes back and forth, making a sound like waves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She changed her weight from one foot to the other and seemed excited. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I can bear the weight of that burden. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mimi, you’re so suspicious,” Isaac told me that night under our duvet, the weight of his calf over my ankle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Jhogo looked terrified as he struggled with the stal-lion's weight, afraid to touch the dead flesh, yet afraid to let go as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Never really throwing his weight around, usually good for a joke. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How could our weight possibly make a difference on a ship this size?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

About half a mile away, a mountain of coral disintegrated under the weight of two giant creatures. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lapp read the note, scanned it again, then wrinkled his upper lip, squinched his nose until the bridge was thoroughly grooved, and weighted down his entire prissy face with a formidable, puzzled frown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A runner was the one who moved packages for local suppliers who needed to make drop-offs for the street-level dealers but didn’t want to carry the weight themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The fibula of Booth’s lower left leg, a thin bone that is not intended to bear weight, snaps just above his ankle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had slipped into the race with such a light assignment by virtue of a peculiarity in the race’s weight system. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was against the Gate that he would throw his heaviest weight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

So much for my secret garage workouts with Dad’s weights. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually, it all started coming back, the weight of things. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that they were sinking under the weight of the Allied forces, but Hitler’s regional leader, Gauleiter Koch, refused to allow civilians to evacuate. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tree held the base while Zheegwon carefully made his way up, testing each rung with his rubber boot before putting weight on it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It stings to put my weight on it, but I don’t care. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With the bag weighted, she didn’t think they’d float, but at least they weren’t on the bottom yet. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

By noon she was visibly putting on weight. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Lord Brax had felt especially gallant as the weight of his steel pulled him under the black water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After cheer practice Monday afternoon, my boys and I hit the weight room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My grandfather seemed so small and defeated then, bowed under the weight of history and the burdens of the future. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

From the basket they would drop a weighted plumb line to measure the river’s depth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ’member sitting on Doc’s couch, feeling I’d carried the weight of the whole world on my shoulders. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was more prone to weight gain than any horse Smith had ever handled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoulder to shoulder, they leaned into the weight, legs flexing, teeth gritted. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an assemblage of enormous weights parallel to the mat, ready for her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The stairs creaked and grumbled as he walked down them, protesting his weight, as if they just wanted to be left in peace. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly toward the sink, against the weight of them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There might even be potholes or underground weaknesses which would cause the surface to collapse under their weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had slumped over, leaning his weight into the machine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d been sold too many times for the proposition to have much weight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It would play a double role: it would provide extra flotation to compensate for the vertical weight of the mast, and it would make for a slightly raised seat for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be good to reduce the weight in your pack,” she pointed out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I prepped the tables and bunks for holding the weight of soil, and even put the dirt in place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to lose weight first,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chup, who had gotten thin doing the job of two parents, began to put on weight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He settled his weight on the bed beside me and continued. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I can bear my weight upon my feet, though I cannot stand long alone, nor can I straighten. But can I not lean upon the bench?” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

With Vu Lee I squat in dtingtan, weight on legs, back straight, arms at my sides, fingers relaxed, eyes everywhere at once. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At times the ground was so hard that we had to dig the shovel into the ground with both hands, pushing in with the weight of our bodies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing made sense to Hazel, and she was so sleepy, like there was a weight pulling down on her brain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of course he was still afraid, but a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Relieved, she now felt the full and shocking weight of what she had just witnessed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was no way to attach them that would hold Kaitlin’s weight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Never robust, he became depressed and lost weight. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Smith had foreseen, since his stellar performance in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap Seabiscuit had been assigned the highest weight in virtually every race, at times carrying over twenty pounds more than his rivals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of canvas sailcloth that I weighted down with bricks and used as a windbreak on cold nights. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere Alfred found a little extra strength, he reached all the way down for it, and the next time the red glove missed he threw his weight behind a short right uppercut. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It weighted my skirt like a heavy rock. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“And look a there, she done lost some weight.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Othello just stands there, shifting his weight from foot to foot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard their weight creak on the spruce ribs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Part of it's my weight, but part of it's practice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The star nodded, and, awkwardly, resting her weight on him, she began to try to pull herself to her feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sits, practically on my foot, and leans all his weight against my leg. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next is the weight of her on each wooden step, until the door at the top of the staircase flashes open, light spilling into the basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Though just barely substantial enough to support body weight, the rime was plastered over the rock to a thickness of two or three feet, so I kept plugging upward. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world’s most important crop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would have been easy to roll over the side, fully clothed, and let the weight of denim and cotton drag me to the bottom while my last breaths escaped my lungs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the weight of everything going wrong was too heavy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Rosie shifts her weight and places her foot in the center of the tub. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The routine was ironclad, which put the weight of responsibility on Barack to either make it on time or not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of the ocean pushing down on his heart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the tractor the weight did not matter so much, and they would hold enough for two weeks or more. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Songololo was the one I had to drug, but I had trouble judging her weight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to open my eyes against the heavy weight of sleep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Soon they will be large enough to bear my weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Well, the girls who made snide comments about her clothes and the boys who laughed at her weight could have their opinions. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

David surges toward me with a grimace of pain as he puts weight on his injured leg. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tower was steady and unmoving under the weight of twisted steel and plastic. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But the wave was a great weight on him, a house on him; the world was on him and he could not move up against it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was too important and he needed the weight of the Angolans’ expertise, their experience, to make sure all went well. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harassed by his teacher and fellow students, he could not find enough nourishment to maintain his weight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Its pockets could carry anything without adding extra weight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ray leans all of his dog weight against Axel’s leg. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was always a small woman, but her dialysis was forcing her to lose weight fast, and soon her short, gaunt frame was an almost comical mismatch with her husband’s bulk. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She collected Jungle Red and Youth Blend safely, but Sunny Glow, which had tipped completely over and lost its protective disk, exploded in light peach puffs under the weight of the raindrops. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of a light-starved corridor I tested my weight on a rickety staircase, my boots leaving fresh tracks in layers of dust. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The craftsman should have given him one of those round-faced horn hammers weighted with lead, for his first attempt. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I had to throw my weight against the passenger door to get it open. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Given Ambrose’s smugger- than-usual expression of late, they expected I had been run out of town, or, at worst, that I was weighted down with rocks at the bottom of the Omethi. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She trotted to the road with the scale a gentle weight in her pocket, heading toward the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then they started to dash at the cage, shaking the thin wooden bars with their great weight. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As the stretcher was maneuvered into position alongside the bed, Briony’s fingers went slack, she had no control over them, and she brought up her left knee in time to catch the weight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had reached the same conclusion as Baliani: the space contained a vacuum, and the weight of the mercury was balanced by the weight of the air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On a run with the wheelchair, driving to school with Fiona, in the weight room with football players, on the track with Kyro...the focus definitely does not feel like it’s on Rosa. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her cart had been left back at the clearing, so she made a kind of sling to balance the woman’s weight on Chi-Boy’s back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Like many inmates, he’s in excellent shape from weight lifting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was worth it, though, to see Pilar’s astonishment at her weight loss. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing him, the dog yelped and thrust its weight against the hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few were uninhabited and gloomy-looking with dandelions overrunning the yard and limp gutters hanging loose from the weight of soggy old leaves and broken tree branches. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the day she was at the store, but at night she was there in the big house and sometimes it creaked and cried all night under the weight of lonesomeness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a test, she tied one end around a support column and leaned on the rope with all her weight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since he put all his weight behind it, I stumbled and banged my shoulder on Doc’s worktable. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He leans down to me, his lips close to my face, and I can smell the breath that comes outta his mouth, smell the weight of it, like fingers grabbing for me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They’d lose weight too quickly, and some would get stuck and would keep losing weight until they wound up like this “model.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He moved slowly, struggling with the weight of mattresses and furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers left the library, deposited the lead weights by the front door, and headed up to the second floor, knocking their shoulders against the paintings of the Lockton ancestors that lined the staircase. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three cylindrical weights hung down from behind the face, and a long pendulum swung back and forth over the ground. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In an instant, the weight of his failures dropped over him again like an eyeless hood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He concedes that outrage and hazard do not carry equal weight in his risk equation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Leo stuffed it in his tool belt and the bag vanished—no weight, no mass, no volume—though Leo knew it would be there as soon as he reached for it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I have a husband who no longer carries the weight of the nation on his shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As beautiful as the design was, I worried over its weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another deep sigh, another subtle shifting of weight, and then she takes a couple of steps backward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Kreacher’s thin arms trembled with the weight of the pan, still held aloft. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Why the giant weight on my chest suddenly lifts when I think about moving to Boston. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at her, I knew she could carry the weight of the world and still walk tall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She shuffled in her oxford-clogs, with a gliding or skating motion, her knees bent and her weight thrust forward. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She pauses after she says it, like that will help me to feel the weight of it, but I don’t need time or silence or space to believe her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps your elephants would sooner be nightingales. Instead of sweet song, Meereen’s nights would be filled with thunderous trumpetings, and your trees would shatter beneath the weight of great grey birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My load of books felt heavier than usual, and I shifted the weight of them to my other arm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It could figure out whether a rock was gold by the weight. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled with the weight of oncoming sauropods. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be losing weight, and I noticed he was wearing different eyeglasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead I could noose the bedsheet round my neck, hook myself up in the closet, throw my weight forward, choke myself off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the added weight of the bag— which seemed to get heavier by the foot— coupled with the fact that he was getting weaker all the time, the raft seemed barely to move. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had weighted down the note with the salt shaker. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to work on the net, untangling it section by section, getting lead weights and fishing hooks straightened out, yanking out knots around the cow serpent’s hooves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And although I didn’t think it would be possible, you’ve gained weight. Where will you ever end? There’s something so unbelievably tacky about your obesity.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he realized it was drooping because the weight had been removed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How do you manage to carry around an ego that size and weight?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her normal ration of food in the prison was bread and water, which is why she was losing weight so rapidly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I hung on it with all my weight. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was suffocating under the weight of it, and I was furious at myself for letting him get to her, for creating an opening just big enough for him to slip through and find her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The bonobos weight, which I guess would be no big deal for another bonobo, was crushing me into the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cart was not heavy, but the man walked slowly, as if he were pushing the weight of the world. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, at least, is one weight off my shoulders. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hate this feeling, like the weight of this will make my chest collapse. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight slowly, trying—without exposing any piece of himself beyond the outline of his small rock—to work into a position, into a crouch from which he could spring. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capsule weight, astronaut weight, payload weight—each pound required more fuel, and the fuel added weight as well. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Roy’s father stood up slowly, as if the weight of a hundred bricks were on his shoulders. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stumbled and fell onto her back, where her weight stretched the cuffs painfully across her wrists. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But this is what I’ve been doing since we started weights. I don’t want to change it now when we’re getting marked for it.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There were other hooks, leader wires and weights in the kit, besides a whole other kit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to avoiding them, the same way a cripple keeps weight off an injured leg. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was not sure the branch would hold the weight of them both. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she glided and shifted her weight, gracefully executing a combination of steps which the bent woman had danced long ago at seal camp. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick threw his weight and I kicked my feet at his, trying to flip myself on top. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

To marry a man is a matter of weight. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every step is pain, every ounce of weight pulls at the wound, making me lightheaded and nauseous. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked around, feeling a weight around my temples. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of my phone in my hand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Miig put enough weight onto each of us so that we just began to buck, and then stopped, patting our loads and looking to the next one up to be burdened. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He felt that there was suspended just above his head a huge weight that would soon fall and crush him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper lay across his knees and the weight of his arm held it there in the evening breeze. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It groans under her weight, and I can tell how much she is hurting by the awkward way she moves. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They’ re strong now, leaning their weight against my hand, dragging me in circles. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Luke grabbed Toby’s arm and tried to pull him in the other direction, but Toby was dead weight. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was a player, but he was up at forward when he didn’t have the weight to be no forward. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay close behind her, but even under the weight of Ruth May she was sinuous and quick in the crowd. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight and pulled her chin up until her eyes were looking into his. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his weight against Finn to move him closer to Miguel, as if that would keep the flock safe. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bran reached up over his head and pulled himself out of his seat, drawing the dead weight of his legs up through the holes in the wicker basket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Emma clicked over to the other kids’ information, she saw that the kidnapped boys’ heights and weights were different from Chess’s and Finn’s, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Manny shifted his considerable weight on the little wooden chair and fussed with his skinny goatee. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’ll take me hours to get through here, Victor thought, throwing his full weight against the entrance. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Otto hadn’t thought his freeze pose through, having put more weight on his left leg than his right, as if he was getting set to run a race. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And so she did, though the weight of it made her neck ache. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As her weight crushes me to the dais, the dagger Marcus has flung into her side is jarred loose. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Call had other problems with running besides his weight. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie, because of the unfortunate angle of his neck and the weight of Constance upon it, was only able to see a bit of floor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think what he was actually doing was exercising his legs—putting as much weight on them as he could, a bit more each time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One evening he came home from his training weighted with new knowledge. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Black eyes, black hair almost over his eyes, a little less than middle for height, a little less than middle for weight, sort of middle for everything else. already know.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

One unanticipated result of ending manual labor was that I began to gain weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant the removal of cone-shaped material from each end, saving weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her brushing her hair, holding her head so the weight of her hair all came on one side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He felt the texture of them, their precise weight and balance as he’d twirled them over his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally he rose, made awkward by his weight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He ran his hands down the smoothed wood, then lifted it and bounced against its weight. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I have lost so much weight it feels as if my joints are rubbing against each other, making my body ache. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shoved him back, throwing my full weight into it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If anything, he seems to have gained weight in the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I feel Marcus’s eyes on me like an oppressive weight threatening to crush me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I feel the weight of my cell phone in my pocket as I settle in. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The enormity of it, the weight of the line, was a mass too great to express. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put weights on one side of the scale and a large spoonful of coriander on the other. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His thumb knew the exact weight in ounces which it would have to exert on the near side of the fulcrum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let her take the weight, she can say to herself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put no weights on the line and had difficulty getting it close to the bird. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back, ready to say hi, I notice he isn’t alone in the weight room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Red Jack winces as he shifts his weight from one foot to the other, hand holding his side. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Jonathan tried throwing it over his shoulder and resting it as the others did, only to find its weight cut into his neck. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the door and took the trunk inside; his back was bent beneath its weight and he walked slowly with his eyes on the wavering red shadows on the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How much better sundown would be than the end of a day in the restaurant, where a good day’s work was marked by the number of dirty plates and the weight of the garbage bin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I made up the weight difference by loading 600 kilograms of rocks in with my other supplies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My words feel like they are weighted down with stones. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it up, and its weight shocked me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I unexpectedly shifted my weight to my front foot, while ducking, and hit Olena on her right arm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I test the harness anchor with a sharp yank, hoping it will hold the weight of two fully armed Masks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I am told,” the king said, sagging like the winter branches weighted by snow, “that the workers are treated worse than slaves and the emperor has the fallen buried under the wall.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, he tested the crutch with his full weight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Take your weight on your palms. Lift yourself; don’t hang. Plant the crutches, then swing through.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I look over at the locker room, expecting some mutual friend of ours, but Tats shifts me to face the weight room, a separate facility that is connected to the gymnasium through an inconspicuous door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I feel the commotion, feel the energy out there, like it has a shape, volume, weight. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The thing to do, I thought with a smile, was to give them hints that whatever you did or said was weighted with broad and mysterious meanings that lay just beneath the surface. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His weight was enough to make it ring, and Stuart promptly slid down, walked to the front of the desk, and said: “Let me have your attention, please!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even bruised and dead, she was pretty, pinned under the pile of her bed and the weight of all the stuff that had crushed her. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of steel in her hands made her feel stronger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The stairs creaked with every shift of weight as they descended the dozen or so steps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In a far corner behind the weight area, at the bottom of a small flight of stairs, a regular group of inmates practiced some kind of martial art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t move, no matter how much weight she heaved on it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with all the weight and gravity she could muster. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I catch her, stumbling back a bit from the weight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lillian Meecham had been radiant, a dazzling partner who added charm to a family so drilled and weighted down with the responsibility of obedience that they seemed to function and move together like a machine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unexpected weight shift had not spelled disaster. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he's lost some weight in the last month, but he's got a long way to go before he's any kind of athletic specimen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to get up, but his leg was shaking badly and did not want to support his weight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I hooked the pick of my left ax on a nickel-thin lip of rock and weighted it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z