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 Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2021
  • About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2017
  • About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • Set a goal, eliminate deadweight and sprint into the future.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
  • 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
  • But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Well, at least the Reds wouldn’t be hamstrung with an astronomical, deadweight contract for long.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • What’s your prognosis for the season? 2023 was an anomaly of deadweight contracts and injuries crashing into a youth movement.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Not to mention cutting out the deadweight middlemen in publishing.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Not to mention cutting out the deadweight middlemen in publishing.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • With 12 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss, a sack and two quarterback hurries, Asante played hero ball Saturday night as Auburn leaned on its defense with deadweight as the Tigers’ offense sputtered.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • That represented 68% of the vessels when measured by deadweight, and the lowest number of tankers tracked with IG club insurance, surpassing 67% uninsured recorded in July and August.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That represented 68% of the vessels when measured by deadweight, and the lowest number of tankers tracked with IG club insurance, surpassing 67% uninsured recorded in July and August.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the bailouts eliminated the deadweight loss that would have occurred otherwise, while also reducing uncertainty by completing the bankruptcies swiftly — 31 days for Chrysler and 40 days for GM.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Mar. 2020
  • He's said California's economy is proof that combating climate change isn't the economic deadweight Trump suggests.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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