heave
verb (used with object)
to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence.
have been heaving
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present perfect progressiveof heave.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Whether they have been in North Carolina or California, these parks have been heaving with new Wrexham converts queuing for player autographs or having their photos taken with cardboard cut-outs of Reynolds and McElhenney.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2023
The Winslow on Goodison Road would have been heaving with Evertonians before and after the Merseyside derby on Monday but never opened its doors because of the suspension of the Premier League.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020
But the alarming signs sparked a new round of invasion jitters last week, just as the Poles should have been heaving a sigh of relief at having averted a potentially disastrous general strike.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slackening, or letting out some of the rope on which they have been heaving.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Well—but there, you know the rest of the yarn just as well as I can tell it you, for by that time you must have been heaving up over the horizon.
From With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure by Edward S. Hodgson
