Example sentences for: weigh

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

  • Given the large federal role in health care delivery and financing, there is a need to weigh the needs of Americans against their wants and the overall affordability of health care considered by policymakers.

  • Deciding all these issues of admissibility will be judges who will need to weigh competing claims from lawyers with competing interests, backed up by expert witnesses with competing theories.

  • Conservatives weigh in: In the National Review , Jonathan Foreman bashes novelist Patrick Chamoiseau's highly praised Texaco, calling it "ponderous, self-indulgent, and overwhelmingly mediocre."

  • Full grown, these fish weigh two to three times as much and are now a protected species, but they were once so abundant in American waters that Aaron Burr claimed he could cross the Hudson from Manhattan to New Jersey on their backs.

  • 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."


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