Sentence examples for hefty as a from inspiring English sources
From the moment you enter the galleries you're seeing things you won't find anywhere else and certainly not in this combination: a bronze drum as hefty as a hot tub; a wooden Buddha, tall, dark and Giacometti-thin.
High school brought the opposite: a sleek, carefully edited and meticulously indexed volume that, with two hundred pages of ads, was as thick and hefty as a phone book.
We all bring some baggage with us when we embark on a new relationship, and yours appears to be as hefty as a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk (with an equally exorbitant emotional price tag attached).
Ranking the entire Mozzaplex No. 3 in his most recent 101 list, Jonathan Gold wrote: "The consensus hit of L.A.'s meat world this year is probably Chad Colby's tomahawk chop at Chi Spacca, a monumental cross-section of pork rib, hefty as a squash racquet, rubbed with fennel pollen and grilled slowly until it glows with flavor.
At almost 600 pages, bestseller Stuart MacBride's latest novel The Missing and the Dead (HarperCollins, £16.99), in which he attempts "to convey realistically what divisional Scottish policing is like on the ground", is a hefty as well as a risky undertaking.
Unavoidably, it is a big book — seven hundred and sixty-eight pages, as hefty as an almost-full fifth of gin — which, when it was first conceived, failed to stir much enthusiasm from publishers (or, for that matter, from Plimpton himself).
Mr Museveni has also threatened to close the Daily Monitor, in which the Aga Khan has a hefty stake, as well as two other independent newspapers, if they continued to "play around" with security matters.Such threats are nothing new, say media-watchers in Kampala, Uganda's capital.
As companies going public gain the edge in pricing discussions with initial investors, Snap could command a hefty valuation, as much as $40 billion.
Her demeanor belies a hefty résumé as a scout of emerging talent.
Although Mr. Pirro will no longer practice law, he could still command hefty fees as a real estate developer and lobbyist in Albany.
At its worst this is little more than legalised extortion, and too many leaseholders are having to pay hefty bills as a result.
