dead weight
dead load

And now she had a dead weight on top of her.

I tried to get up, but the Thing was a dead weight on my back.

It was in a very real sense, a dead weight.

It was all they could do to hold up his dead weight.

The larger man was almost dead weight on the boy.

He tried to move his legs to help, but they were still dead weight.

Otherwise an individual could become dead weight at any moment.

After a moment the dead weight became too much, and the horse brought his head down.

When she was just dead weight in my arms, I let her go, slowly.

Though she was a small woman, he'd been carrying her as a dead weight.

A dead weight of darkness, trying to see through its eyes.

Or just fall like a dead weight that he could never carry.

A sword in his hands was so much dead weight.

In particular, the level of dead weight loss is hard to measure.

She dragged him on, almost a dead weight behind her.

I pushed the door again, and the dead weight behind it gave way some more.

I wanted to move quickly, not be dragging a dead weight.

There was only the dead weight on the end of the chain.

The word sat like a dead weight in his gut.

The two men tried to lift the huge dead weight.

"It is a dead weight that could drag down the whole company."

The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment.

His daughter may only be small, but asleep like this she was a dead weight.

He stared at me, and even from a distance I felt the dead weight of his eyes.

I started to lift Three, but his dead weight was impossible.

The success of the trial with the dead load convinced me.

Dead load refers to the weight of the bridge itself.

She has it most every day - dead loads of it.

This likely not an ascetic choice, but done as part of an overall strategy to minimize dead load.

For earthquake loads, about a third of the dead load of the building will be designed.

Compression testing can also involve a superimposed dead load to a test package.

After a few steps he found his left leg too heavy to lift, and dragged the dead load through the soft sand.

Dead loads are static forces that are relatively constant for an extended time.

In another instant, darkness and swift motion had engulfed the dead load beast.

Unless the wretched thing recovered, they would be carrying a practically dead load of German insurance.

These half-open spandrels were meant to further relieve the dead load on the bridge.

However, their approach not only failed to provide additional structural capacity, it also inadvertently introduced a new and significant dead load at the weakened area.

If you add another hundred pounds in dead load, you have to pay for it in fuel.

"It's as if it were designed for the dead load, for gravity, without considering wind loads at all."

Dead loads are also known as Permanent loads.

The dead load was too heavy.

It is generally possible to quantify the magnitude of dead loads with a reasonable degree of confidence.

The close to zero ash content of forest biomass significantly reduces dead load in transportation and processing.

The current reconstruction could not proceed in 1982 before the upper level pedestrian walkway was removed to lessen the dead load.

Dead loads are those due to the self weight of the structure and any permanent fittings and finishes.

Remarkably, the support line of the structure's dead load is almost identical with the curve of the vault arch.

But I was going to suggest we send up a dead load, say a crate of eggs packed into a hogshead."

Long cantilevers with heavy dead load.

Dead loads are large, wheeled, steel vessels weighing up to 80,000 pounds, simulating the weight of actual aircraft.

Three kinds of forces operate on any bridge: the dead load, the live load, and the dynamic load.