deadweight

The buffalo could do nothing against the deadweight of the Europeans.

His deadweight was immense, more than she could bear and still breathe.

Often in the past I had walked out of that vile office feeling like so much deadweight.

It is usually used in the context of deadweight.

The animal crashed to earth, one thousand pounds of deadweight.

It would have an estimated deadweight of circa 220,000 tons.

I wasn't going to black out: They wouldn't have wanted to carry a deadweight.

That's it, I realized, grateful for any inspiration, drop the deadweight!

He registers the deadweight on the end of the rope - Dominique no longer struggling.

He was slight, but the deadweight was a challenge.

The deadweight was 8,790 tons and load displacement on a draft of 27 ft. 6 in.

The collision knocked the second man over, the deadweight of his companion pinning him to the snow.

Like a crab pinned by one claw, he moved in a circle, kicking out from under the deadweight.

At last Zach forced him to let go, and picked up the heavy deadweight.

Pike was crawling himself now, unable to move the deadweight of the man, the wall comm shouting at him.

The man was remarkably heavy: a literal deadweight.

The hull storage loading capacity deadweight is 104696 tons.

Deadweight is an alternative rock trio from San Francisco, California.

There was about the area a massive, hollowed-out numbness that pressed down like deadweight.

The vessel's deadweight is 115,700 metric tons with a gross tonnage of 97,933.

It was perhaps a wise enough precaution, and he never slowed them up, even lugging that deadweight.

She lay curled in the car, passive deadweight.

Could she have lifted a man's deadweight?

Against chemicals this would have been utter useless deadweight, for the thing to do then was to run fleet and upwind.

Joe's right, Rick thought,the gun's only deadweight now .