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

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

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

Behind them glittered the astounding ocean with its heaving storms, flying fish, breaching whales, and curls of phosphorescent waves.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman