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

This would have been heaving the vessels to, had they not been kept a little off, in order to force them through the water.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

In its bowels the theological forces have been heaving and tossing, rumbling, thundering and quaking, boiling, and weltering and flaming and smoking for ages.

From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Twain, Mark