Sentence examples for we heave from inspiring English sources

We heave an object overboard — a bucket tied to a boat fender, a tough vinyl tube — and take turns trying to retrieve it.

Like good capitalists, we heave and we ho ourselves into each workday, trading our brains and brawn for a wee bit of bacon.

After a rest of half an hour, we heave ourselves back up to the track and march onwards, always with the land falling away to one side, down to the vale below the Downs, with its network of hedgerows, its patchwork of fields.

The living room carpet is covered in needles, the potato salad covered in mould: as we heave ourselves up out of the year that's gone and prepare to belly-flop our way into the year that is to come, it's time to pause a while and look at what we've all been reading.

We heave her onto the grass.

We heaved, hoisted and dragged the boats across a hundred yards of boulders.

We heaved out whatever we could at moments when her back was turned and ferried the stuff in relays to the council dump.

It was almost unbearable to watch as we heaved her up the makeshift wooden ramps into the truck and along the supports inside it.

As we heaved our canvas tents from site to site, I felt like some 19th-century explorer, blundering into a Garden of Eden.

Swinging our wellie-booted feet on to the beach, we heaved the Zodiacs ashore as a squad of seals shuffled over on their fore flippers and cautioned us with low growls and sharp yellow canines.

Almost collectively, we heaved a sigh of relief.