bear heavily

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

For the schools to raise tuition fees would bear heavily on the already hard-pressed student, and would do little to close their budget wounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any major war . . . must bear heavily on them during its continuance and also for generations to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is evident, too, that such a tax must bear heavily upon the unthrifty.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

He will waken soon enough to the hard realities of a street life, voluntarily undertaken, it is true, but none the less likely to bear heavily upon him.

From Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio