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Example sentences for "lightweight"

Lexicographically close words:
lightnings; lights; lightship; lightships; lightsome; lightwood; ligion; ligious; ligna; lignage
  1. The shoes were a new plastic, lightweight and long-lasting, but the dyeing problem hadn't quite been solved.

  2. Shoes always felt a little uncomfortable, even lightweight sandals; he felt trapped in them.

  3. In lightweight circles, at any rate, old-fashioned proprieties are still effective.

  4. His fight with Rocky Kansas at Madison Square Garden was advertised as being for the lightweight championship of the world.

  5. Billy Petrolle in a Boxing Contest for the World's Lightweight Championship.

  6. The ex-lightweight ignored entirely the covertly delighted grin that lit up Bobby Ogden's features at his appearance.

  7. He stood in dismayed indecision until the ex-lightweight had disappeared before he turned toward Young Denny, who had been watching in silence his effort at intervention.

  8. Hogarty half rose, one hand outstretched as if to halt him, but for some reason which the ex-lightweight scarcely understood himself, he failed to utter the protest that was at his tongue's end.

  9. Usually fewer than half a dozen volunteers finished out of a class of fifty: a lightweight like Chuck Norris wouldn't stand a chance.

  10. The sun beat down fiercely, making him thirsty and weak, while the sharp rocks pierced the lightweight shoes he had worn for the plane.

  11. It became Sharon's pretense that he was not hugging the boy, merely feeling the muscles in his shoulders and back to see if he were as good a lightweight as ever.

  12. But then, when his boxing master arranged a series of matches, he was entered in a lightweight contest and entrusted to the care of his guardian angel.

  13. From the beginning, Wheeler and Wilson had looked beyond the use of the sewing machine solely by manufacturers and had seen the demand for a light-running, lightweight machine for sewing in the home.

  14. Meanwhile the calling for a Freshman lightweight went on without success, and the crowd was throwing red-hot taunts at the youngest class for shirking their duty.

  15. That fellow who is pitted against him is Francis who won the lightweight event for his class last year, and is one of the best men in his class at the wrestling game.

  16. She slipped the Denton into the side pocket of a lightweight rain robe, draped the robe over her arm, slung her purse beside it, picked up the sun hat and left the room.

  17. Felt and flannel are both in this heavy pile, although there are some lightweight flannels.

  18. Two lightweight garments are better than one heavy one because of the air space between.

  19. His tunic and hose were of lightweight undyed cotton.

  20. A boy in a red tunic and turban held a sheaf of lightweight spears.

  21. In his hand Daoud grasped a rumh, a lightweight lance longer than a man's body, with a tip of sharpened bone.

  22. Shake hands with Bugs Butler, ma'am, the coming lightweight champion of the world.

  23. He's going up against the lightweight champ.

  24. For his one chance was in his youth and the method he had learned from the lightweight champion of the world.

  25. A college professor gets five thousand a year, a good lightweight will grab that much a fight.

  26. You do have a recollection that those rods were a very lightweight metal?

  27. That the lightweight metal, white, turned over, bent around, something less than a quarter of an inch on each side.

  28. The Wrights' goal was an operable and reasonably lightweight unit to be obtained quickly and cheaply.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lightweight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baby; block; brittle; bruiser; button; chicken; chit; cipher; clod; creature; crumbly; dainty; delicate; diminutive; dolt; donkey; doormat; dope; dullard; dumbbell; dummy; dunce; effeminate; featherweight; fighter; figurehead; flimsy; fluffy; flunky; follower; fragile; frail; heavyweight; impotent; inconsequential; indifferent; ineffective; ineffectual; inferior; invertebrate; jellyfish; junior; light; lightweight; loon; masses; mediocrity; middleweight; milksop; mollycoddle; mouse; nincompoop; nobody; nonentity; nothing; nubbin; obscurity; papery; pawn; pony; portable; powerless; prizefighter; pugilist; punk; puny; put; runt; scrub; secondary; shrimp; sleazy; slight; slip; snip; sop; squirt; stupid; subaltern; subordinate; tacky; tit; underling; underweight; unsubstantial; wart; weak; weakling; weightless; whippersnapper; wisp; wispy; witling; womanish