weigh heavy
Example Sentences
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“These things weigh heavy on him,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Borthwick said the performance against Scotland was the first time since he took charge of England that he had seen "the shirt weigh heavy" on his players.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024
While Saturday’s events still weigh heavy on the community, Kazbekova and some of her students said they are ready to get back to dancing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023
The knowledge of the terrible events coming weigh heavy over the story, tinting everything in queasy expectation.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022
Maybe you are an inch or two taller; and brains, I have often observed, weigh heavy; but yours at the top must be like a glass of soda-water!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth