heaving

Example Sentences

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Here, at a heaving Murrayfield stuffed with the expectant French, they found their complete self.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Archer heaving a couple of sixes was the inspiration for Root to whip out his trademark - a reverse-scoop off Boland for a maximum.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

She flinched, as if she’d just slapped herself with those words, then bounded off, heaving herself ungracefully over the garden fence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman