"weight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The weight of the huge volume of water depressed the valley floor.
- Pleistocene glaciation put the area under a thick ice cover, the weight of which depressed the land below present sea level.
- The sheer weight of glacial-age ice depressed the landforms, which experienced post-glacial rebound after the ice sheets had retreated.
- He poured and sat down, his heavy weight depressing the soft padding of the couch.
- "The weight of the silt depressed one end of the block and tipped up the other," he said.
- The weight of the receiver no longer depresses the spring-loaded switchhook, thereby connecting the instrument to the telephone line.
- A weight depressed the end of her bed.
- The weight of the ice sheet depresses the underlying land, and when the ice melts away the land slowly rebounds.
- He correctly concluded that the weight of the water in the deep lake had depressed the earth's surface when the shorelines were formed.
- The weight of the receiver depresses the spring-loaded switchhook thereby disconnecting the idle instrument (except its bell) from the telephone line.
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