heaving
Example Sentences
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Here, at a heaving Murrayfield stuffed with the expectant French, they found their complete self.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 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
Archer heaving a couple of sixes was the inspiration for Root to whip out his trademark - a reverse-scoop off Boland for a maximum.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
The once-subtle tug of the realms would become a heaving pull.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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