heaviness

Example Sentences

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But that same density can tip the cake toward heaviness — toward something that eats more like dessert than companion.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

He’s got kind of an operatic quality to some of the stuff he sings — very emotional and melodic music that he puts on top of the heaviness of System.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

The US-based Society for Vascular Surgery said the condition can cause heaviness in the affected limb, as well as swelling and pain.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

There were no clouds overhead yet, but a heaviness was in the air; it was hot for the season of the year.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien