Sentence examples for had been heavy from inspiring English sources

The preceding chapters had been heavy.

There had been heavy fighting — the city was devastated.

The culprit, locals knew, had been heavy rainfall.

The rains had been heavy, and it had flooded again.

Losses had been heavy, each division having suffered some 1,200 casualties.

Ms. Quinn said her Catholic education had been heavy on memorization and testing.

Beirut, where there had been heavy fighting since Wednesday, was calm.

Kristol's daily life for the past two years had been heavy on caustic tweets.

There had been heavy shelling in the west of the city for the past three days.

There also had been heavy increases in seigneurial dues, which were blamed on the British colonial regime.

Students again claimed the police had been heavy-handed.