Sentence examples for drop weighty from inspiring English sources

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He rarely smiled, and tended to drop weighty pronouncements ("Our destiny is to resist") in ordinary speech, but I saw his reserve crumble whenever one of his children climbed into his lap.

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That is not the same as seeing the federal government as a tyranny-in-waiting, straining constantly against chains fixed by the Founding Fathers.Into this live political argument drops a weighty new work, "James Madison: A Life Reconsidered", by Lynne Cheney, a conservative scholar and wife of the former vice-president, Dick Cheney.

In a gorgeous solo during "Cosmati Variations I-IV," Ms. Mey seemed like a figure from an ancient pottery fragment come to life, dropping into weighty crouches or turning sharply on her heel, her long limbs spiraling out or up with an inner force.

Red Polls are very docile, making them great to work with, and they are heavy milkers with the ability to drop small but weighty beefy calves; these same cows have excellent calving ease.

It's a weighty burden to drop on the scrawny shoulders of some ten-year-old boy or girl, standing hunched and terrified before a scowling, correction-bent teacher.

Bead should have a nice weighty feel to it.

His statement was all the more weighty as it emerged that U.S. auto makers saw sales drop in 2005 (See video: "Detroit Just Keeps Falling"), while its Japanese counterparts reported sales increases.

Take Murrow's longtime colleague Eric Sevareid, who always seemed to be deep in thought like the day I dropped in on him and sensed I was intruding on some weighty matter he had been turning over in his mind.

The problem is that some names are too weighty to be sustained by normal conversation – they can only be dropped.

Unwantedly weighty?

All this sounds weighty.

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