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Sentences with heave

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  • It took five strong men to heave the statue up a ramp and lower it into place. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
  • It took only one heave to hurl him into the river.
  • I would kick the drum over and roll it around a bit, and heave the bag out of it and try and heave it into the back of the truck.
  • Instead of simply being a way to heave a couple of kilos of books around, the backpack needs to securely hold a notebook computer.
  • His chest heaved, and he took a deep breath. [VERB]
  • He gasped and heaved and vomited again. [VERB]
  • To do this he would heave his ancient body up the stairs to the bedroom I shared with my sister, Lucy, and halfway up he'd start to talk.
  • The forms heaves, heaving, heaved are used for meanings [sense 1] to , [sense 3], and for the phrasal verb. The forms heaves, heaving, hove are used for meaning [sense 4].
  • Mr Collier heaved a sigh and got to his feet. [VERB noun]
  • To heave a sigh
  • To heave in sight
  • Heaving waves
  • A ship hove into sight
  • To heave a heavy ax.
  • To heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
  • To heave a vessel aback.
  • To heave a sigh.
  • To heave one's chest.
  • He heaved his breakfast before noon.
  • Heave the anchor cable!
  • The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
  • He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.
  • The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.
  • heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
  • The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.
  • We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.
  • The wind heaved the waves.
  • Her chest heaved with emotion.
  • She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
  • The cap'n hove the body overboard.
  • Heave up the anchor there, boys!
  • To heave the ship ahead 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core[1], The Gutenberg Project : The Sagoths were now not over two hundred and fifty yards behind us, and I saw that it was hopeless for us to expect to escape other than by a ruse. There was a bare chance of saving Ghak and Perry, and as I reached the branching of the canyon I took the chance. Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight. Ghak and Perry had disappeared around a bend in the left-hand canyon,
  • The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
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