Example Sentences

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I was hefting a trilobite fossil and half listening.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

He had picked up the ugly little bronze battle-axe that leaned against his chair, and was hefting it and fingering it and shifting it from hand to hand.

From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)