heaving

Example Sentences

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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

By midday, the entire stretch was heaving with thousands of people and the sea was full of swimmers and surfers.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

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

But last June he was rubber-legged and dry heaving in 95-degree heat when he bowed out of the 37-mile Rachel Carson Trail Challenge outside Pittsburgh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2025

Big, heaving sobs about all of it: the death of Great-Grampy JonJon’s ambitions, and the fact that Uncle Jack really did have proof of JonJon’s innocence but couldn’t use it.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone