by weight

Idioms

According to weight rather than height, volume, or some other measure. For example, In Europe bread often is sold by weight rather than by the loaf. [c. a.d. 1000]

Example Sentences

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By that date, the share of dirty diapers in Japanese trash by weight will rise to 7.1 percent from 5.2 percent in 2020, the environment ministry said.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

China imports in the final quarter of 2025 measured by weight were down 22% compared with a year earlier, according to Jason Miller, a professor of supply-chain management at Michigan State University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

On average, these fruits contained 0.26% alcohol by weight.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

Jake Paul and Deontay Wilder are two men separated by weight, experience and tradition, yet orbiting the same strange boxing universe.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

He suggested that when elements were arranged by weight they appeared to repeat certain properties–in a sense to harmonize–at every eighth place along the scale.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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