heft

He might find them, but his team is lacking ideas, conviction, composure, physical and psychological heft, creativity, ruthlessness and stomach for a fight.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It’s not exactly the kind of metaphor you want to hang an entire film on, lest its relative simplicity give way under the heft of a feature film’s many parts.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

With such sentiment and statistical heft, the reaction to Nvidia’s earnings can thus still shape the broader market.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Neither do the costumes, which are flame retardant, and add additional heft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The run-in with Tante Heleen had left her shaken, and the heft of the daggers in her hands wasn’t enough to soothe her rattled nerves.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Another possibility, yet to be modeled, is that the gravitational hefts of Venus and Earth scattered the material further out before some worked its way back to our planet.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2022

This time, players are in the shoes of Gordon Freeman, who hefts his iconic crowbar as the game ends.

From The Verge ● Mar. 27, 2020

Your father hefts his pack onto his back and you smear zinc on your face, following him up the trail.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2018

“EVERYBODY thinks this is a 50-pound sack of seeds,” says Steven Fabijanski as he hefts a large white bag onto a table.

From Economist ● Mar. 1, 2018

Gale’s hands close around the very bow that caught my attention a moment ago, and he hefts it onto his shoulder.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

After she sipped the tea my mom delivered, after the three of us brainstormed crutch-friendly Halloween costumes, Mrs. Murray hefted her pocketbook onto one shoulder and got up to leave.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Calculations of its hefted flight angle, altitude and length of flight suggested it had the range to reach the continental U.S. if fired on a conventional trajectory.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

To demonstrate the magnitude of this Borgesian Library of Babel, Cruz reached beneath his desk and hefted up a tower of four little books.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022

How would any new replacement sheep become hefted with no older sheep to show them?

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021

Even my pack began to feel a whole lot lighter; and the forks and knives had stopped jabbing into me whenever I hefted it up again.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

She prepares dinner, then hurries to an Amazon warehouse for a 6 1/2-hour shift sorting, scanning and hefting bulky items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Other footage shows Scouts hefting umbrellas as they line up in the sun for facilities, and flooding convenience stores to buy ice and ice cream.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Taking a break from hefting bricks, Tica told The Associated Press that he had been working to loosen the earth with a metal rod when the ground suddenly began to collapse.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

“He’s a strong guy, and that’s good for all of us!” said butcher Karoly Ludanyi, hefting a string of glistening sausage links a stall in Budapest’s landmark central market hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

"Idiots, just because the will said Buy Westing Paper Products," he muttered, hefting a bulky bag from the compartment attached to his bike.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin