Example Sentences

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Legs were starting to leaden and chests were heaving visibly.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2018

Bookshops were heaving with so many of these “clean” books that even the authors themselves started to feel that there were too many of them.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2017

It sounded as though we had hit an underwater obstacle, and then we were heaving and struggling up the ladder on to the deck.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2014

There was snow in some sections of the stands but workers were heaving it toward the piles on the sidelines, where it was being trucked away.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2010

Men were heaving at their Work & I could see their Faces caught against the Moon-Track on the Bay.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson