Example sentences for: weigh

How can you use “weigh” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We cannot compare the incomparables and weigh the imponderables.

  • Idealized children short-circuit politics, because where they are concerned, people tend to say things like "even one child abused (or hurt or hungry or killed) is unacceptable"; whereas politics needs to be able to weigh risks to some people against risks to others.

  • "We must weigh those risks [of bombing] against the risks of in action," Clinton said at his press conference Friday.

  • You can't point to a bright-line rule to make the decision; rather, the judge is asked to weigh the equities and say, "This or that doesn't seem fair to me, and so I order you to do differently."

  • Specifically, you must weigh their effect on certain theories in circulation, among them that Neanderthals still walk--or lumber--among us, and indeed that they have maintained their cohesion through the ages and still constitute a group apart.


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