The phrase 'heavy eyelids' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is feeling tired and sleepy. For example: "I was so tired after a long day of work that my eyelids felt heavy."
Heavy eyelids were also a strong cue related to illness.
He has these heavy eyelids and laid-back nature that I think I have".
While pale gardenia skin and heavy eyelids are the vogue, I manage to scrape along.
She suggests the familiar Woolf of the photographs without mimicking those huge, heavy eyelids and the eerily elongated limbs.
At 60, Ms. Eisenberg looks like a large, slender bird with her heavy eyelids, beaked nose, small chin.
The woman was older than Bick and thin, with a long face, sharp cheekbones, a strong chin, and heavy eyelids.
With heavy drooping eyelids you continue reading only to realise you have fallen asleep".
The masks have facial forms that repeat the angular pattern established by the heavy triangular eyelids, and they are topped by a bushy coif of raffia.
Portraits of Mary show that she had a small, oval-shaped head, a long, graceful neck, bright auburn hair, hazel-brown eyes, under heavy lowered eyelids and finely arched brows, smooth pale skin, a high forehead, and regular, firm features.
Jules and Edmond de Goncourt encountered him in his 40s and dashed off a bitchy pen-portrait: "Very tall, very broad, large bulging eyes, swollen eyelids, heavy cheeks, untidy drooping moustache, battered complexion with red blotches".
"How many times can someone die?" He lifted his finger, his eyelids heavy.
