Sentence examples for to weigh something from inspiring English sources

The winner of the £1,000 prize – who did read his poem at the award ceremony, at the Southbank Centre in London – was Nick MacKinnon, for The Metric System, about the idea of attempting to weigh something weightless.

Individual atoms within the cantilever itself jiggle due to thermal motion, limiting the precision of the measurement; it is like trying to weigh something on a scale that is constantly bumping up and down.

Auden, with more irascibility than one might expect, pointed out that this was a poisonous doctrine — the idea is to juggle golden balls that weigh something.

It is to inculcate mass into those particles which weigh something.

So by now you are probably saying to yourself, "Well doesn't the fat weigh something... if I 'thin it out' won't the scale go down?" My answer is yes it will, but also keep in mind that scale number reflects everything else in your body as well -- muscle, bone, water, skin, organs, etc.

The Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos weigh something more than nothing.

Since I'm almost 6-foot-6 and I weigh something like 240 pounds, I can't wear designer clothes.

Of course, that doesn't make sense--even electrons weigh something.

I weigh something like 80kgs and he's around 105kgs or 110kgs, so he has a weight advantage.

Neel Murthy: The biggest hurdle with the real world is that we have physical devices that take up space and weigh something, which obviously presents logistical challenges that traditional companies don't see.

In other words, they will turn a lump of metal weighing nearly as much as a Fiat 500 into a component weighing something akin to a racing bicycle.