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

But last June he was rubber-legged and dry heaving in 95-degree heat when he bowed out of the 37-mile Rachel Carson Trail Challenge outside Pittsburgh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2025

“Everything,” El Coronel said, heaving a sigh of relief, “is calm.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025

Star, heaving and panting in a wallow of mud that was sucking her down, down.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda