Sentence examples for pulled your weight from inspiring English sources

It's called a 'made man.' You pulled your weight.

If you feel like you haven't pulled your weight either, try to give it another month or so.

Those are both intensely family-oriented cultures, whereas Americans have a 200-year-history of putting up strangers based on a quick look-and-feel -- embodied in the wild, wild West, where sacking out in a ranch's bunkhouse for the winter meant you pulled your weight by doing chores and helping herd cattle, even if you were not on the payroll.

"You're constantly feeling like a burden, constantly feeling you're not pulling your weight.

You don't want people saying you're not pulling your weight".

"You know you have to go out there and pull your weight," Hughes said.

If he thinks you aren't pulling your weight he will tell you, and if you are doing a good job he will tell you.

"Don't mention this at the office," that same nagging voice warns, "you'll look like you can't pull your weight".

This is a radical notion known as pulling your weight, contributing in a positive way and working together as a team.

"They're just happy that you can pull your weight," said Eva Paz, 36, a second-year apprentice in the carpenters' union, who has a "No Cry Baby" sticker on her hard hat.

'Finally, as a gesture of goodwill to the director, you kind of have to pull your weight.' But there is a point beyond which she simply will not go.