heft
Example Sentences
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During each new trip, I was newly struck by the way millions of Legos can grant a sense of physical heft to heavy ideas.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
Originally pitched as a movie, the comeback is subdivided instead into 30-minute-long quarters, giving them a certain heft, whereas a “TV movie” might have felt like a throwaway, an afterthought.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Here, Washington is targeting China, which despite its economic heft is classified as a developing country at the WTO.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
UBS took over Credit Suisse with government backing, giving it more heft globally but making it a behemoth in its home country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
All the time Turner held him up and wondered at how light he was, so light it hardly seemed his body could heft his soul.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing heft
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 2 of the epic poem
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