Example Sentences

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The yolks deepen the flavor and create body without tipping the balance into heaviness.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

On a crisp and sunny morning, there is a heaviness in the air in Beirut.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

I walked to the neighborhood bistro for lunch and proudly slipped into the booth, feeling that heaviness I’d longed for, that glimpse of a different future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

As parents, my wife and I wear forced smiles so our kids don’t become afflicted with the heaviness that comes with every video clip and headline out of Gaza.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2025

There was something fluid, insubstantial, in the very heaviness of this city built of monoliths, this monolithic state that called the part and the whole by the same name.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin