Sentence examples for weigh upon from inspiring English sources

History's dead hand can only weigh upon his strokes.

The word incubus is derived from the Latin incubus ("nightmare") and incubare ("to lie upon, weigh upon, brood").

Those tough conditions can be expected to weigh upon the group's margins, as will the P&L catching up with capital expenditure and software amortisation.

When Lars's memoir is not dreary, it is frightening, and Erik's and Inga's Scandinavian-American heritage begins to weigh upon the present action of the novel.

The Proust quote at the start of the book states that, in spite of the regrets it may weigh upon us in later life, "adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything".

But it does not exempt policy makers or critics or protesters from thinking through the implications of any intervention, or the legacy of history that could weigh upon it.

It weighs upon him, troubles him.

It weighs upon the whole country.

Every little thing kind of weighs upon my shoulders.

This is the first century that weighs upon us like an incubus.

He said slowing economic growth in China was also weighing upon commodity prices.