Example Sentences

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They take turns weighing their backpacks to see who will heft the heaviest.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2018

Well, suh, accordin' to my reckonin' this here one will heft about a hund'ed an' sixty-five pound, ez he stands now.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)