heaving

Example Sentences

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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

A heaving Murrayfield, the Scots with their backs to the wall, England on a mighty roll, a shot at redemption.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

An antidote to shoutier, perhaps less truly confident cities, there is an old joke that the local tourist board motto is: "Don't tell anyone or the place will be heaving."

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

Then Brooks shifts into the light thriller she’s teased since the opening notes of heaving, scratchy violins.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Jam gasped and scrambled backward off the painting until she was pushing away from it, her chest rough and heaving, her left palm loud with hurt.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi