heavy-duty
Example Sentences
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In my part of the world, heavy-duty pickups often work weekends, hauling the entrepreneurial class’s pleasure boats to and from the coast.
MINNEAPOLIS—In a typical winter, Minnesota’s transportation department would be mobilizing its heavy-duty vehicles to plow snow, but lately it has redeployed part of its fleet to block streets for protests.
He pointed to someone in a glassed-in room taking samples out of a petri dish with a pipette and putting it under a large, heavy-duty microscope hooked up to a computer monitor.
From Literature
Akira found a heavy-duty Ziploc bag with some frozen leftovers in it, dumped the food out in the sink, and filled the bag with ice.
From Literature
Inside a cavernous shipbuilding hangar, workers cut and weld steel for the yard's latest icebreaker, a heavy-duty Arctic vessel, called Polarmax that's destined for the Canadian coastguard.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
