How to Use deadweight in a Sentence

deadweight

noun
  • But there’s no deadweight to speak of, and the first five episodes give all of the main ensemble their chance to shine.
    — Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
  • About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • But engineers at Nissan are looking at the battery pack as more than just deadweight to be carried around.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight has freed me up to focus on advancing my career.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight freed me up to focus on advancing my career.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Well, at least the Reds wouldn’t be hamstrung with an astronomical, deadweight contract for long.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Not to mention cutting out the deadweight middlemen in publishing.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Every dollar in deadweight cost reduces national income by the same amount and is a direct hit to our economy.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
  • But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Next comes some fancy piloting, the detachment of the thrusters, and then the scavenger ship is effectively so much deadweight in space, at least for now.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The university that once promised to buoy scientific aspirations now feels like a deadweight.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The plan for this season was to strip it back to basics, removing deadweight from the squad and ensuring everyone left behind is pulling in the right direction.
    — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Employers should dump the deadweight and set an example for employees who will readjust to be more productive members of society.
    — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • So, in certain industries, the risk of outsourcing may well outweigh the deadweight loss resulting from tariffs or any other form of free trade barriers.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 June 2025
  • Her incredible ability to get played for a sucker by her own party is a deadweight on the entire national legislature.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Swiveling his propellers sideways, Johnson uses the tug as a deadweight to act as an anchor to slow the Marjorie C.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • As if moving his muscular deadweight weren’t a task itself for the two girls, there’s a point where Jinx falls onto Margo and pins her underwater in the tub.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • Getting Gil's literal deadweight into place must've taken some serious muscles, or at least serious physics.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Thus, Ockham's razor cuts loose the deadweight of the theory, leaving it with only the necessary pieces of explanation.
    — Julius Černiauskas, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The best hope is that GE dumps this deadweight, even if the cost is big (though hopefully not Markopolos-big), clearing the way for Culp to work his magic.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Getting rid of deadweight and dealing with unsatisfactory situations will lighten your burden and make room for investing more time in yourself and what brings you joy.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The benefit is the removal of intermediaries and all the inefficiency and deadweight losses therein.
    — Korok Ray, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • If Congress barred corporations from reducing their number of shares outstanding, higher funding costs would represent a deadweight loss.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 13 Apr. 2020
  • One explanation for the deadweight loss is a mismatch between desirability and feasibility.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • What had seemed like a boon to our usecase ended up as a deadweight on our prospects – if investing all this money on autonomy only enabled us to clamor to fight for similar top line as incumbents, why even work on autonomy?
    — Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Such maneuvering imposes deadweight costs on financial markets, while reduced returns overall decrease the incentive for price discovery.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Immigration is becoming a deadweight loss by the day for the Republican Party and conservative politics.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • QuantCube’s indicator measures the volume of deadweight tonnage leaving Iraqi and UAE ports, which provides an estimate of the cargo weight the ships are carrying.
    — Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • It was sent to space as a piece of deadweight on the inaugural test flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, and the vehicle is now destined to spend eternity soaring aimlessly through our cosmic neighborhood.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • By integrating turbine and ramjet technologies, a concept dating back to the end of World War II, the scientists removed the inactive deadweight and simplified the model.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026

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