heft
Example Sentences
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The achievements come despite lukewarm reviews for the record, with The Telegraph saying it had "all the emotional heft of a perfume advert".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Nvidia Corp. has the heft to make or break the U.S. stock market — and on Thursday the technology giant dragged down the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
It weighed about half a ton, but Glenn needed very little help from me to heft it all the way into the schoolhouse.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
