Thesaurus / heave-ho
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The door banged shut behind him and I heard him at the foot of the stairs roaring "Ho-ho-there-ho!"
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
He watched her, saw the little body heave down its entire length, noted the small convulsive movements of it.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The men did “hold on” most powerfully; they did more, they hauled upon the rope, hand over hand, to a “Yo-heave-ho!”
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
The man roared furiously, and gave a convulsive heave that almost upset myself and the big chair, and disengaged the key!
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
No man on board knew when the sea might come which would heave her down, and they watched grimly as the gallant craft tore on.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN
She tole him dey wuz ho'ses in de paster an' dat de Yankee camp wuz over near Laurinburg or somewhare like dat.
Nobody ain't seed dat boy since, but somehow dat ho'se come back an' in his mane wuz er piece of paper.
The sailors who had been lounging about the deck sprang up and looked eagerly across the waves, as the cheerful "Sail-ho!"
STORIES OF OUR NAVAL HEROESVARIOUS
Not another man stood on his feet, but the deck was strewn with the dead, whose bodies rolled about at every heave of the waves.
STORIES OF OUR NAVAL HEROESVARIOUS
She slipped her arms about his neck, and he felt her breast shaken with the heave of agitated breaths.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
WORDS RELATED TO HEAVE-HO
- abolish
- clear
- deliver
- disabuse
- disburden
- disembarrass
- disencumber
- dump
- eject
- eliminate
- eradicate
- expel
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fire
- give the brush
- heave-ho
- junk
- kiss goodbye
- liberate
- make free
- purge
- release
- relieve
- remove
- roust
- scrap
- send packing
- shake off
- shed
- throw away
- throw out
- toss out
- unburden
- unload
- uproot
- abolish
- clear
- deliver
- disabuse
- disburden
- disembarrass
- disencumber
- dump
- eject
- eliminate
- eradicate
- expel
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fire
- give the brush
- heave-ho
- junk
- kiss goodbye
- liberate
- make free
- purge
- release
- relieve
- remove
- roust
- scrap
- send packing
- shake off
- shed
- throw away
- throw out
- toss out
- unburden
- unload
- uproot
- abeyance
- abeyancy
- adjournment
- break
- breather
- breathing spell
- cessation
- coffee break
- concluding
- conclusion
- cutoff
- deferment
- disbarment
- discontinuation
- discontinuing
- doldrums
- dormancy
- downtime
- end
- ending
- finish
- five
- freeze
- halt
- heave-ho
- intermission
- interruption
- latency
- layoff
- letup
- moratorium
- pause
- period
- postponement
- quiescence
- quiescency
- remission
- respite
- stay
- stoppage
- suspense
- ten
- termination
- time-out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.