The phrase "about the same weight as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing the weight of two or more objects or entities to indicate that they are similar in weight.
Example: "The package is about the same weight as a standard laptop, making it easy to carry."
Alternatives: "approximately equal in weight to" or "roughly the same weight as".
Basically the same size as the iPhone - though admittedly about the same weight as the heavier G1 - the Storm just feels more sturdy than many of its predecessors.
Since carbon monoxide is about the same weight as air, she said, it is generally not necessary to mount the units on the ceiling.
Walters, noting she "looks about the same weight as the Duchess [of Cambridge] - about 8st," was told by Kendall to "f*** off," before supposedly adding quickly "don't print that".
LONDON — When the final report of the nine-month Leveson inquiry into the ways of the British press was published last week, it came as a boxed set — four chunky volumes totaling just shy of 2,000 pages encased in brown cardboard and tipping the scales at about the same weight as a good-sized Thanksgiving turkey.
Maybe if there was a little more heft to it, but it feels about the same weight as a marshmallow.
But the babies of adiponectin-treated mice were about the same weight as those born to lean control mice, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
When alive, the largest specimen probably weighed about 500 kg (about 1,100 pounds), roughly the same weight as a present-day cow.
In 1907, the Mint had experimented by striking about two dozen pieces of the same weight as the double eagle, bearing Saint-Gaudens's design, but which had a smaller, thicker planchet.
At one point, Walters speculates that "she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st"; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss "the cruel comments about being a 'childless spinster'", neither telling readers who made those "cruel comments" in the first place, or where.
In fact she looks the same weight as the Duchess -- about 8st -- though when I ask she slaps me down with a raucous "f*** off!", adding quickly: "Don't print that".
