heave
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At Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery, the shelves heave with white strawberries, purple asparagus and other produce from 300 local farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Stokes had added 50 from 36 balls with Ben Duckett when he aimed a heave at Foulkes and was caught by Mitchell.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
In the part of the forest they control, he and other Romee youngsters heave logs to be burned and turned into charcoal, then sent by canoe to the provincial capital Kisangani.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
At six bells of a forenoon watch, Nat said, “Mr. Denny, heave to for soundings.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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He guides me inside a warehouse full of vast, bubbling water tanks and heaves out a haul of the squirming, long, thin black fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Cronin is loved for building teams that improve with the schedule, fight till the finish, and have been a couple of last-second Gonzaga heaves from seriously competing for a national title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Mother and son are each maneuvered, bunraku-style, by up to three puppeteers at once, animated by a combination of intricate movement and vocalizations that include not just dialogue, but grunts, sighs and heaves of effort.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
His vomiting grew intense and turned into dry heaves.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Von Allmen, however, was a picture of celebration after his storming run, the large number of baying Swiss fans in the packed tribune wildly applauding their hero, flags waved, cowbells heaved and air horns blown.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
On a recent day, she heaved a 10-pound bag of frozen chicken from Costco onto her kitchen counter, then boiled breasts with onion powder and garlic powder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Every Navy officer I knew heaved a huge sigh of relief.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
Brook regularly heaved through the on side, Root played trademark handsome drives.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
“More cruel than ever. Don’t you see how I’m pining away?” and Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
“Make yourself at home,” the midwife said, as I hove into the birthing room like a galleon in full sail.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2019
“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016
The dark mouths of mines now hove into view, in all sizes and states of dilapidation.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
So their talk ran on, while down the coast, and round toward Ithaka, hove the good ship that had gone out to Pylos bearing Telemakhos and his companions.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Flores said in the lawsuit that he began experiencing stress-related health problems including anxiety, dizziness, dry heaving and vomiting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
International rescue teams and frantic families are in a race against time, heaving debris aside in a desperate bid to find the last survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
A heaving Murrayfield, the Scots with their backs to the wall, England on a mighty roll, a shot at redemption.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
He was tall, broad, and brown-skinned, chest heaving as he fought for breath.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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