dead weight

Example Sentences

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The text of the measure was unenforceable, but the dead words remained in the California Constitution, a dead weight on our collective conscience.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

Now he had been deemed dead weight in Italy, too.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Misguided, opinionated labor is dead weight; the high-up leaders know best, which is why they’ve earned the positions they have to begin with.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023

“I’m trying to understand how a person’s dead weight can be on your body and how his head can be suspended above your head?”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023

It felt like the old donkey had gone slack and left the entirety of his dead weight for me to drag.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri