Sentence examples for grow heavy from inspiring English sources

"grow heavy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something becoming physically heavy or difficult to lift or move due to its weight. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a situation or emotion feeling burdensome or overwhelming. Example: As the rain poured down, her backpack grew heavy on her shoulders. Example: As the tension in the room grew heavy, everyone could feel the impending argument.

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Feel your eyelids grow heavy.

Now when the morning grows long or the eyelids grow heavy, the Z-Lounge beckons.

His roots remain as deep as the trees that grow heavy with almonds, the area's No. 1 crop.

Dad in a folding chair, dragged in from the deck, continuing long after our eyelids had started to grow heavy.

The vision was so formal and wild, alive and full of hope that I felt my eyes grow heavy; I was starting to sweat.

The Mataura's banks grow heavy with thick grass that hides where the banks end and sometimes sent us slipping into pasture holes.

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The interplay between the two men, with deft comic timing, is quite funny early on, but things grow heavy-handed.

Similarly, if Hindu nationalists in power were to grow heavy-handed, a backlash and a rise in extremism are easy to imagine.

The shotgun Elliot was carrying seemed to grow heavier.

Sadettin felt the pistol grow heavier in his hand.

I grow heavier, and then so inert that my body seems without life.

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