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"Heave" in a Sentence (38 examples)
This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.
Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible.
East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.
Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.
Any traveler to Vietnam will be familiar with the experience: A trip here is not complete until the traveler ventures to cross the intimidating roads that heave with motorbikes, only to find that drivers will weave around the pedestrian and that there is in fact some order in the seeming chaos of the street.
Parts of the world ravaged by outbreaks of Ebola can now heave a small sigh of relief thanks to the stockpile of vaccine, the International Coordinating Group (ICG) announced Monday.
When the song begins in earnest, the nightclub in Johannesburg’s smart Rosebank suburb begins to heave with the bounce of scores of gyrating bodies.
Heave ho!
When we go to heave the rocks uphill to farm in these hilly mountains, we all end up in extreme pain for days after.
We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.
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He hove himself out of the bed.
They hove rocks into the pond.
The cap'n hove the body overboard.
Her chest heaved with emotion.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
the heaving plain of ocean
Presently the moon went down, and left us floating on the waters, now only heaving like some troubled woman's breast, with leisure to reflect upon all that we had gone through and all that we had escaped.
She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
Heave up the anchor there, boys!
Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […]
The grovving Tovv'rs like Exhalations riſe, / And the huge Columns heave into the Skies.
where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
The wind heaved the waves.
to heave the ship ahead
Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight.
The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
She [The Church of England] had ſtruggl'd and heav'd at a Reformation; ever ſince Wicliffs dayes, for about a 150 years together: […]
Ben mort (good vvench) ſhal you and I heaue a booth, mill a ken, or nip a bung? ſhall you and I rob a houſe, or cut a purſe?
We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.
July made no reply but that of a sigh. For she was thinking of the heave she must make to see herself lifted from the ground.
and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end
The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box).
The dust would have to be watched out for with a heave horse, and most alfalfa hay...
The late stage is recognized by horse people as the true "heave" horse and at this stage most of the airways are partially or completely obstructed.
The bay horse was straining at the time the picture was taken, making its heave line more noticeable.
That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.
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