- present participle of heave.
heaving
Example Sentences
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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
The gym, meanwhile, is "absolutely heaving with young people" at times, says Lauren Connis, head of health and wellbeing at Oldham Active in Manchester.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 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
Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
