heave
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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
As pressure under the surface increased, the ground started to heave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
In a ritual unseen by the cameras, volunteers heave the floating icons toward the asphalt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
I heave my book bag onto my shoulder, and we start walking up the block—slowly, because that’s how Ma hobbles along with her cane.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
He guides me inside a warehouse full of vast, bubbling water tanks and heaves out a haul of the squirming, long, thin black fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
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
With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
The map, the early morning, the letter that has traveled through the night to be delivered: A narrative heaves underneath the silence of the scene.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
The sobs were regular and emotionless, as mechanical as the dry heaves which had stopped only a moment earlier; there was no reason for them, they had nothing to do with me.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Mostly, though, the stands heaved with fans from Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
Needing five for victory or four for a tie, Durham batter Clark heaved England international Tymal Mills over the boundary at mid-wicket.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Then Ivan heaved his arm from one side to the other, like he was throwing a bale of hay over his head, and the pool’s water rose up in a muddy tidal wave.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
“Make yourself at home,” the midwife said, as I hove into the birthing room like a galleon in full sail.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2019
“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
Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Madeleine Begun Kane http://www.madkane.com, Bayside, Queens, NY The wealthy gathered in droves, While to them a hurricane hove.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2012
At dusk, we hove to and laid down our anchor a bit past Jamestown Island.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
International rescue teams and frantic families are in a race against time, heaving debris aside in a desperate bid to find the last survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
By this point I'm starting to look like an extra in a low-budget Star Wars parody – and we are definitely the pre-match entertainment in a pub which is now heaving.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
I picture a big lever in my mind, a man heaving it down.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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