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heave

[heev] / hiv /




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Hinoki and the new cocktail bar Heave Ho! are both plopped next to Saint Bread by Portage Bay.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

With five seconds remaining in its game Friday night, the Sherwood football team scrapped its schemes and gave quarterback Amari Allen a simple task: Heave the ball to the end zone.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

Your other famous moment was a 47-foot buzzer-beater last year that is now known as "the Harris Heave".

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2010

"Heave, heave, heave," and he released the ball, "heaves a lot."

From The Guardian • May 5, 2010

Increase the swing of the pendulum, increase, increase, come up and bear against that point of furthest balance-increase-increase- "Heave!"

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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