How to Use weigh down in a Sentence

weigh down

verb
  • We're not weighed down by anything here.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Close the book; weigh down with a heavy stack of books or a few bricks.
    — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Around his neck hangs a shoelace weighed down with no less than two dozen keys.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Plus, they’re designed not to weigh down your ears or cause pain.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Leaving them in can make your hair feel heavy, greasy, or weighed down.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Sand piled halfway up the walls, poured in the windows and weighed down the roofs.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • These are the tasks that weigh down knowledge workers and make work feel like drudgery.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The cables would be weighed down with old train wheels, which would anchor them to the seabed.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • These products will likely weigh down our hair and spirits for the day.
    — Celeste Polanco, Essence, 2 July 2024
  • Here's a video of how ice can weigh down trees into nearby power lines.
    — Express-News Staff, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Place an empty pie dish on top of parchment paper to weigh down the piecrust.
    — Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Sheets of festive stickers make for fun treats that won't weigh down trick-or-treaters' bags.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 24 May 2022
  • Ice, which can weigh down power lines, was a problem in many areas.
    — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Maurice Brandt brought up the rear, weighed down with cameras and film.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • After taking a bath, these towels don’t feel weighed down at all.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But it’s not weighed down with product or sticky with hairspray like before.
    — Louise Whitbread, Refinery29, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This ensures your hair won’t be weighed down in excess product.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 23 May 2026
  • Everything’s weighed down to the hundredth of a gram.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Strong wind can make that worse by adding extra stress to branches already weighed down.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Finding one that doesn’t leave hair crunchy or weighed down, however, can be tricky.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2025
  • They’ve also been weighed down by student debt and child-care costs, Lautz said.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The tree scraped the ceiling and had great, breakable balls that would weigh down the branches.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The arms may be thick, but the tech housed inside them doesn’t really weigh down your face.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This blunt cut by stylist Shaylee Blatz plays up thickness but doesn't look weighed down.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • That harness helped weigh down the turtle’s back end in a way that didn’t cause damage to its shell.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Throughout the city, bare trees were weighed down with icicles and snow was piled up next to sidewalks.
    — Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Be sure to provide some sort of stake or cage so that the many fruits on these plants don't weigh down their branches.
    — Kerry Michaels, The Spruce, 5 Feb. 2026
  • These are also a replacement for your key fob, so no need to weigh down your key chain with your old key.
    — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Their ingredients tend to be lighter and less likely to weigh down hair.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Fishermen found lobsters and crabs painted black and weighed down by oil.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026

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