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weigh - use in sentences
Preposition: about
- lbs: I personally use 12 inch light training Nunchaku with a 5 inch connection, weighing about 1/2 lbs.
- kilogram: Skin weighs about 2.5 kilograms - the largest organ in the body.
- kg: Otters are surprisingly big, with a male reaching 1.2 m from nose to tail and weighing about 10 kg.
- ton: An average tram full of waste would weigh about three tons.
- gram: On average, a human heart weighs only about 300 grams.
Object
- kg: The biggest crushing claw of a lobster ever found was calculated to have been from a specimen that weighed about 9.3 kg.
- ton: The trunk of the General Sherman tree weighs almost 1400 tons.
- gram: Weighing only 40 grams, the Nano is minute.
- lbs: Each weighed about 200 lbs, a suitable weight for carrying by mule.
- kilo: The Aussie cavers produced strange descending devices weighing several kilos.
- ton: A fixed position heavy lift crane can lift individual pieces weighing 217 tons to or from the river.
Preposition: over
- kg: This kite has been big enough to lift a friend of mine, who weighs over 100 kg, off of the ground.
- ton: Apparently of massive design and built with great rigidity, weighing over 1 tons.
Particle object: up_obj
- pro: So I will weigh up the pros and cons and decide in a few weeks.
Adjective complement
- 8lb: Included in his catch was a tench weighing 8lb 1oz.
- 240kg: Producers, suppliers of quality soft haylage in rectangular bales weighing 240kg.
- 23lb: Weighing 23lb 5oz and 18lb 1oz, the 23 was a personal best.
- 27lb: Matthew Donovan grabbed a quick early week session and was rewarded with a pretty big plated mirror weighing 27lb 8oz.
- 6lb: Catherine Rogers - Two Home Birth Stories Catherine's first baby was born in hospital, weighing 6lb 7oz.
- 24lb: Clive Adams also managed a good fish on his first trip of the season, a big scaled mirror weighing 24lb 12oz.
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