Sentence examples for heft up from inspiring English sources

At the next station, the train paused longer than usual, & we heard the conductor's voice "Now, easy does it Just take a hold, lady, & Jake will heft up on your other hip".

With Shaquille O'Neal now in the Eastern Conference, the Knicks could use more heft up front.

He stepped quickly forward, hefted up a shotgun and blasted him in the chest.

Perhaps it's some comfort that the ability to heft themselves up trees decreases as the mass and size of the croc or gator increases.

When you're on your knees and desperate for a miracle, Big Sam heft you up by your shoulders, leans his big face close to yours, Greggs pastry all down his front and on his trousers, and says: "Chin up, cunt".

It has been a recurring criticism among reviewers – our own Peter Bradshaw among them – that Life of Pi lacks the philosophical heft to back up its transcendental visuals, and that the conundrum offered up to us in the final scenes verges on the spiritually glib.

Who has the stomach and intellectual heft to stand up to the deficit hawks?

The Spiders were outrebounded, 37-16; they did not have the size and heft to match up with Samhan and his teammates.

While Irish did a decent job of shackling the menacing Nathan Hughes, the likes of James Haskell, Johnson and Bradley Davies carried enough heft to make up for it.

Now, AT&T is in talks to join the Chernin Group in a bid for Hulu, a pairing that would give Mr. Chernin's media, technology and entertainment investment group the financial heft to go up against major corporations.

The meal they gathered to witness other people digest consisted of the world's first hamburger made of meat grown from scratch in a laboratory.What the 140-gram patty lacked in heft it made up for in price.