Sentence examples for a heavy step from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a heavy step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the sound or manner of walking that suggests weight or seriousness, often conveying a sense of burden or importance.
Example: "As he entered the room, his heavy step echoed off the walls, drawing everyone's attention."
Alternatives: "a weighty stride" or "a thudding footfall".

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With sweaty palms, a heavy step and a stutter, Marc McAndrews entered a brothel in Elko, Nev., without much of a pitch or a plan.

A further contribution of this paper is that a heavy step in the proposed heuristic can be precomputed, independently of the service demands.

Because it is irrevocable, and because taking someone's life even in the interests of justice is such a heavy step, America's judiciary has struggled for decades to apply it fairly and consistently, and largely failed.

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There is a difference between a press, which is a movement that leads to something else, and a plant - a big old heavy step with the front foot that leaves you stuck.

Jeb listened to her heavy step as she crossed the front hall to the bathroom beneath the stairs.

So here I go, heavy step by heavy step, I start to allow myself to feel and maybe even love my fat.

From there, the elusive Wilson — who had scrambled for 16 yards on one play earlier in the drive — avoided a heavy rush, stepped up in the pocket and fired a laser of a pass that got a piece of both Addae and Moore but careened out of the back of the end zone.

"Civil Deconstruction," which featured deliberately fragmentary phrases for Ms. Uzzi, Ms. Warfel and Mr. Blumenfeld, was notable for its juxtapositions of light and heavy steps and a brief solo by Mr. Blumenfeld to the sounds of offstage tapping.

I review footage I filmed yesterday after a bombing in al-Shaar district and notice a man covered in dust crossing the frame with heavy steps.

The poet has "heavy steps" but "light thoughts," as opposed to when he was a young man, and carried thoughts "heavy with destiny / on light feet that almost danced from so much future".

Some heavy steps in the corridor.

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