Hang in the balance?

Usage examples of weigh.

Banish weighed briefly the prospect of trying to get Abies back on the line, then dismissed it and set down the handset.

He had the advantage of owning an excellent network of reporters of transgressions, for he enlisted Lucius Decumius and his crossroads brethren as informers, and cracked down very hard on merchants who weighed light or measured short, on builders who infringed boundaries or used poor materials, on landlords who had cheated the water companies by inserting bigger-bore adjutage pipes from the mains into their properties than the law prescribed.

Leaving the blade in for fear of doing more damage, Kumul lifted Ager gently as if he weighed no more than a child.

But despite his acquittal the Latvian remained a dead Latvian and weighed on his mind like a ton of bricks, although he was said to have been a frail little man, afflicted with a stomach ailment to boot.

Bunsen cells, it will be precipitated in an arborescent brittle form, ill adapted for weighing.

The black tin weighed by the vanner is supposed to correspond in quality with the black tin returned from the floors of the mine for which he is assaying, but this differs materially in different mines with the nature of the gangue.

Later we found that it weighed 122 pounds avoirdupois, and was not much bigger than a magnum of champagne.

Dutch traders were scrupulously honest in their dealings and purchased by weight, establishing it as an invariable table of avoirdupois, that the hand of a Dutchman weighed one pound, and his foot two pounds.

Their babies were both born at full term, both are breast-feeding, weigh within a few ounces of each other, and are less than two weeks apart in age.

While weighing the various intangibles and unpredictables, Bade received a report from General Rast.

I complained about his tendency to weigh his story down with vast wads of bafflegab and infodump and strain for vaguely poetic sound bites.

She wore a lot of bangles and necklaces and seemed weighed down by the sheer quantity of decoration she carried on her body.

We saw her in fantastic dresses of silk and lace, edged with turquoise filigree, white gowns, and yellow hats, waving a fan of blue feathers, with expensive bangles of silver and gold weighing her arms, and necklaces of pearl and jade round her neck.

His splendid achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious criticism.

Bossuet, after weighing all historical considerations, felt obliged to acquit Beze of instigating the crime.