heaviness

Example Sentences

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But that same density can tip the cake toward heaviness — toward something that eats more like dessert than companion.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

There’s complexity, harmonies and even some darkness and heaviness to some of the best classical music.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

The US-based Society for Vascular Surgery said the condition can cause heaviness in the affected limb, as well as swelling and pain.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

I offered assistance to one, lifting him from the ground; but he filled himself with heaviness, until all my efforts could not support him.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson