Paperweight

"Paperweight" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This is just a paperweight.

It's nothing but a glorified paperweight now.

You can use it as a paperweight.

This paperweight belonged to my grandfather.

Where can I buy a paperweight?

"Taming Javascript 2.0," is this for a paperweight?

The paperweight used to be a common desk tool -- before 1980, maybe. Now it usually means something bulky that doesn't serve its original purpose.

Tom uses a gold bar as a paperweight.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.

On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.