- present participle of heave.
heaving
Example Sentences
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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
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
He pressed a stethoscope against Fig’s heaving chest.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
