PAPERWEIGHT


Meaning of PAPERWEIGHT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Above the buttes, the mile-high white clouds were as flat on the bottom as paperweights.

Alcoves beside the fireplace held a collection of spotlit glass, bottles, flasks, paperweights.

He rearranged a couple of silver paperweights and brushed his long white hair with his hand.

Once he sent me a paperweight , the very paperweight which had sat on his desk.

She Dreamed up a new hobby for the Mayor, collecting antique paperweights, and made good use of them.

Talismanic paperweight , talismanic brother-substitute, talismanic memory of the Arthritic Witch of Fun.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.