heaving

Example Sentences

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It's Saturday afternoon and the tournament resembles a beach bash in full swing, costumed bodies heaving under the blazing sun.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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

Shopping areas, including the market of Addisu Gebeya, were heaving in Addis Ababa on New Year's Eve, despite the rain - as people rushed to prepare for the celebrations.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 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

Ophie skidded to a stop on the edge of the rose garden, chest heaving, breath coming hard.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland