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.

The larger man was almost dead weight on the boy.

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

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

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

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

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

Otherwise an individual could become dead weight at any moment.

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