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

Our detention centres and jails are heaving with them.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2018

The beaches of Tel Aviv are heaving with holidaymakers.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2012

My sides are heaving from hobbling so fast.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads