heft

Example Sentences

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But he’s also a master in employing scope and space, especially silence, to add heft to his stories’ stakes.

From Salon

Apple signs long-term contracts for memory, but it has used its heft to squeeze suppliers.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had heft to him: large hands, a belly, broad in the shoulder and jaw and wrinkled neck.

From Literature

Yet, in his native New Zealand, that heft was initially seen as a weakness.

From BBC

Coal swiped a handful of gravel from the ground and hefted it in his palm.

From Literature