Sentences with heave
heave
H h - 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.