heaving

Example Sentences

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It was a few seconds before my eyes stopped watering and my body stopped heaving long enough for me to stand up straight.

From Literature

Their bodies were heaving like laughter, but the laughs sounded more like growls and howls and snorts.

From Literature

It's Saturday afternoon and the tournament resembles a beach bash in full swing, costumed bodies heaving under the blazing sun.

From BBC

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

Star, heaving and panting in a wallow of mud that was sucking her down, down.

From Literature