How to Use ballast in a Sentence

ballast

1 of 2 noun

• If the light tubes feel tight, take a look at the ballast.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 26 July 2023
• That's just one ballast tank, and that's just one species.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• This ballast weight aids the descent; on the bottom, half of it is dropped.
  — Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• The cramped hull is lined with old sugar bags, now filled with sand and rock as ballast.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• At each descent ballast bags were dumped as the balloon crossed the ocean.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Karl killed the motors and the lights, letting the air, fizzing into the ballast tanks, rocket us to the surface.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Viewers will yearn for the ballast of clearer insights about the era.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 31 May 2022
• The Wake makes a predictably small wave compared with the splash of a six-figure boat with ballast tanks.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2021
• The ballast was jettisoned from the portside rather than the rear, and now the journey home will take eight years.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
• They were found in the Great Lakes in the late 1980s, likely having traveled over in freighter ballast tanks.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2021
• So, does Bitcoin still make sense for someone who wants to sort of have some sort of ballast?
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2022
• On the ground, a 1-inch ballast pad fits into a standard 9-feet-by-8-feet parking space.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• Crews were unable to reach equipment to stop the flooding in time, and the ballast tanks failed to work properly.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2021
• The next step is to close all the hatches and let the water into the water-ballast compartments.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• In the past, when minimum weights were as low as 500 kg, teams would build cars even lighter and add ballast to reach the minimum.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2022
• No matter how harsh the storm, Powell’s ballast kept him from getting knocked down or blown off course.
  — Christopher Burnham, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The submarine blew its ballast tanks, an act that triggered a rapid ascent to the surface.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2023
• What is not new is having time left on his contract when the contract is viewed somewhat as ballast.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 9 June 2021
• Other invaders arrived by the same route as the spiny water flea, in the ballast tanks of oceangoing freighters.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• With so many of the Heat’s prime trade assets on minimal deals, an amount of ballast could be needed to balance deals.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• The hope is the new ballast discharge regulations will shut the door to new invasions.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Kusunose has been photographing these places since 2014, and his pictures became a ballast for me.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• However the ballast is huge, heavy, and hard to test in water shallower than 100 m.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 28 June 2021
• This was the ideal ballast of bread, vegetables and protein needed to wrap up the night and guarantee a calm tummy the next day.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Some, like Emerson, argued that the ballast of European culture would need to be cast off—that the new nation should be made up from scratch.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Ian Oviatt said the ship lacked enough water in its ballast tanks, used to add weight at the bottom of a vessel, to offset that of the vehicles in the cargo decks above.
  — Russ Bynum, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• Starting a few years back, boats were fitted with ballast tanks to push their sterns down and churn big waves for steeper launch for wakeboarders to fly and twist and flip.
  — Ron Way, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
• Many arrived in the ballast tanks of freighters; some were introduced for sportfishing.
  — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• Efron’s portrayal of a man who fights for glory and for fame only to find himself at a remove from humanity has some heavy real-world ballast.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Insects, the ballast of food chains and essential pollinators that help nourish entire ecosystems, are in rampant decline across the world.
  — Chang Che, New York Times, 27 July 2023

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ballast

2 of 2 verb

• Roughly a third of the structure is submerged and ballasted by 5,000 tons of iron ore.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• The subs are built from a variety of materials, but primarily plastics, carbon fiber, and other composites, with a few metal components and some weights to ballast the vessel.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2017
• Green Bay’s unbalanced and condensed formations, presnap motions, first-down play-actions and intertwined route combinations play to Rodger’s sharp football IQ, ballasting his reads and timing.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Seawater ballasts help with stability and the horizontal surface is layered in solar panels and bristles with antennas and a small wind generator.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Seawater ballasts help with stability and the horizontal surface is layered in solar panels and antennas.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Roughly a third of the structure is submerged and ballasted by 5,000 tons of iron ore.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• The subs are built from a variety of materials, but primarily plastics, carbon fiber, and other composites, with a few metal components and some weights to ballast the vessel.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2017
• Green Bay’s unbalanced and condensed formations, presnap motions, first-down play-actions and intertwined route combinations play to Rodger’s sharp football IQ, ballasting his reads and timing.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Seawater ballasts help with stability and the horizontal surface is layered in solar panels and bristles with antennas and a small wind generator.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Seawater ballasts help with stability and the horizontal surface is layered in solar panels and antennas.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024