heave
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But despite his loved ones’ flaws—and the burdens they heave on him—Waldrop refuses to condemn them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
But with a final heave of the digger bucket, a shower of gold was released from the soil.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
In the part of the forest they control, he and other Romee youngsters heave logs to be burned and turned into charcoal, then sent by canoe to the provincial capital Kisangani.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
“That’s one small toss for a sheet of paper,” said Neil Armstrong, “one giant heave for paperkind.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Malak heaves and leaks tears, stuffs a tattered tissue into the corners of her eyes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Cronin is loved for building teams that improve with the schedule, fight till the finish, and have been a couple of last-second Gonzaga heaves from seriously competing for a national title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Mother and son are each maneuvered, bunraku-style, by up to three puppeteers at once, animated by a combination of intricate movement and vocalizations that include not just dialogue, but grunts, sighs and heaves of effort.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Even in its stillness, a roll heaves beneath its vast surface like a giant turning over in his sleep.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
I grabbed the bike thusly and heaved, oathing with the effort—UFTAH!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Von Allmen, however, was a picture of celebration after his storming run, the large number of baying Swiss fans in the packed tribune wildly applauding their hero, flags waved, cowbells heaved and air horns blown.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Every Navy officer I knew heaved a huge sigh of relief.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
Needing five for victory or four for a tie, Durham batter Clark heaved England international Tymal Mills over the boundary at mid-wicket.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Instead, I heaved the paddle through the black water, eyes glued to the rock still achingly far ahead of us.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016
Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Ten minutes later, the truck's owner, a boy of about 4 or 5, hove into view and wrested the truck away from my son, who was stunned.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2011
The Otter sloop-of-war is hove to and careened in the channel while it undergoes repair; men crawl upon its belly, scraping at barnacles and repairing the work of the worm.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
International rescue teams and frantic families are in a race against time, heaving debris aside in a desperate bid to find the last survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
By this point I'm starting to look like an extra in a low-budget Star Wars parody – and we are definitely the pre-match entertainment in a pub which is now heaving.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
Some dashed to the boats and began heaving and cracking them out of the night’s ice; others broke down the camp and began stowing tents and gear.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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