Example Sentences

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When a promotion affords her a workspace, she cultivates a fixation with paperweights, which help keep her daydreaming grounded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

This gets to the core of the matter: AI is driving runaway demand for processors like those Nvidia makes, but they would be paperweights without memory, so demand there is going bananas, too.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

Bags of rice and barley from past quality inspections act as paperweights for stacks of files and manuals.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides