heaving

Example Sentences

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But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022

The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

If this is true, the forward step Italy is about to take need not, please God! be made in blood and violent social upheaving.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

Their walls, of a dull, yellowish red, seem more like an upheaving of the soil itself, than massive stone piled up by the labor of man.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

And this sudden upheaving was at first without danger to the body politic.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis