heaving

Example Sentences

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The gym, meanwhile, is "absolutely heaving with young people" at times, says Lauren Connis, head of health and wellbeing at Oldham Active in Manchester.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 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

By midday, the entire stretch was heaving with thousands of people and the sea was full of swimmers and surfers.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 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

Big, heaving sobs about all of it: the death of Great-Grampy JonJon’s ambitions, and the fact that Uncle Jack really did have proof of JonJon’s innocence but couldn’t use it.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone