heft
Example Sentences
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When a term like “mother” is employed so generously, it loses all substantive heft.
From Salon • May 10, 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
Amazon has a long history of successful investing, and of profitably renting out the computing heft that it builds.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
I’d argue no on this specific shot-to-shot comparison, mainly because it was Duke-Kentucky, not Duke-UConn, but also because college basketball doesn’t have the cultural heft like it did back then.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
He had heft to him: large hands, a belly, broad in the shoulder and jaw and wrinkled neck.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing heft
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 2 of the epic poem
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