Example Sentences

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It’s just enough to give the ending an emotional weighter, while still leaving me wanting to see more.

From The Verge • Mar. 18, 2018

Surely, even then, "obscene" was a weighter word than "adolescent."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, sir, he is willing they should pay tithes of "mint and rue," but the weighter matters of the law, judgment and mercy, he would have them entirely overlook.

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Thus another field of renown was added to the list, so rapidly increased during these years; where valor won deathless laurels, and principle was reckoned weighter than life.

From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by Owens, John Algernon

No weighter responsibility can any take, no more sacred charge.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood