heave
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Landing Skubal in exchange for a trio of promising prospects isn’t a Hail Mary heave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
In the part of the forest they control, he and other Romee youngsters heave logs to be burned and turned into charcoal, then sent by canoe to the provincial capital Kisangani.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Eight of Scotland's 10 wickets fell as batters attempted to sweep, pull or heave the ball into the leg side.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Like an athlete throwing the hammer, Constance whirled on her hind legs, faster and faster, until suddenly she threw her burden with a colossal heave.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Malak heaves and leaks tears, stuffs a tattered tissue into the corners of her eyes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Cronin is loved for building teams that improve with the schedule, fight till the finish, and have been a couple of last-second Gonzaga heaves from seriously competing for a national title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
The magazines are sometimes oversized and increasingly matte finished, filled with edge-to-edge photographs and literary heaves.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
His heaves echoed in the locker room as if he was choking, the sounds more horrible and violent than usual, but by now they had become reassuring, an encouraging vital sign.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
On the small vessel’s deck, a pair of traps containing skittering crustaceans had just been heaved aboard from 25 feet below the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
With the weight of the world on his shoulders, the Portuguese striker scored a first ever career hat-trick and heaved a chunk of momentum back behind Rangers in the title charge.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Von Allmen, however, was a picture of celebration after his storming run, the large number of baying Swiss fans in the packed tribune wildly applauding their hero, flags waved, cowbells heaved and air horns blown.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Every Navy officer I knew heaved a huge sigh of relief.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
They sank their blades into the sea of stone—loosened by swings of Jake’s pick—and heaved it backward in a pitter-pattering shower of gravel.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016
The dark mouths of mines now hove into view, in all sizes and states of dilapidation.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Ten minutes later, the truck's owner, a boy of about 4 or 5, hove into view and wrested the truck away from my son, who was stunned.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2011
We hove up onto shore just as the sun was dimming behind acres of gray clouds, perhaps an hour left until full dark.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Flores said in the lawsuit that he began experiencing stress-related health problems including anxiety, dizziness, dry heaving and vomiting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
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 ● Feb. 12, 2026
Shopping areas, including the market of Addisu Gebeya, were heaving in Addis Ababa on New Year's Eve, despite the rain - as people rushed to prepare for the celebrations.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Then Brooks shifts into the light thriller she’s teased since the opening notes of heaving, scratchy violins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
He thought of Pond, fully healed, no longer dry heaving or coughing.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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