Sentence examples for to heaving from inspiring English sources

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to heaving

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To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

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Walruses, which require sea ice for resting and giving birth, often have to resort to heaving themselves on to crowded strips of land.

While most locals head to heaving party town Atacames or overpriced exclusive resorts in Same (pronounced Sahmay), those in the know seek out more secluded spots.

Teater, who is from Lexington, Ky., likened it to heaving an air ball from the foul line during a road game at Rupp Arena, the home of University of Kentucky basketball.

Brockbank was down to heaving up stomach acid ("I can even tell you the different colours: orange and green") and the boat was often swamped, but on Tuesday morning the wind died to a light southwesterly and at 1.40pm Dye remembered to rig the radio to listen to the shipping forecast.

Hundreds of sanitation workers and local residents gathered outside as the color guard, themselves trash collectors accustomed to heaving refuse into a smelly truck, wore dress uniforms and clean white gloves as they gently slid the fine white coffin into a hearse ready to bear the body to a cemetery in Westbury, N.Y.

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that caused me to heave in a bucket.

Sharon really starts to heave, really going for it.

It continued to shimmer, to heave and swell, to roll its waves, ancient, majestic, inscrutable, indifferent.

The highest peak seems to heave up in response to the stretching girl.

And a chance to heave themselves away from the prison of the canyon floor.

Such a system will not be able to heave things onto shelves.

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