heave
verb (used with object)
to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence.
are heaving
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present progressiveof heave.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The emergency rooms are heaving, health care workers are falling sick, and misinformation about the coronavirus is running rife.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
It is the summer of 1945: the fighting in Europe is over, the city is in ruins, the streets are heaving with refugees and a radical Labour government is imminent.
From Economist ● May 7, 2018
The beaches of Tel Aviv are heaving with holidaymakers.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2012
The evening is pink and dusky, the cherry-red trams are rattling past the jazzy Gaslamp Quarter and the streets are heaving with convention-goers lugging their potato-sack-sized Batman swag bags back to their hotels.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2010
In less than an hour, the men are heaving their buckets of mixed rocks back into their truck.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
