His arms were beginning to give beneath the lid's weight.

Saturated ground was giving way beneath the weight of the car.

The earth crumbled beneath his weight, but not quite enough.

He felt rather than heard the ice cracking beneath his weight.

I rock and sway beneath the weight above my head.

The tree, a small one, was bending beneath the weight of the man.

The stone upon which I was standing suddenly tipped beneath my weight.

Beneath the weight of the tunnel's roof, things were different.

I leap across, but the snow gives way beneath my weight.

They did not break beneath his weight but held strong and true as their enemy smashed into them.