Heavily

//ˈhɛvɪli//

"Heavily" in a Sentence (25 examples)

The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.

I had hardly left home when it began to rain heavily.

It rained heavily.

It rained heavily, and consequently the baseball game was called off.

It is raining heavily.

It has been raining heavily for three hours.

It rained heavily all day, during which time I stayed indoors.

I sit in front of a computer screen all day, so I get pretty heavily bombarded by electro-magnetic waves.

Bill hates his father smoking heavily.

We were late for school because it rained heavily.

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heavily burdened

She fell heavily into bed.

He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.

The great clod trod heavily on my toes!

The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets;[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.

He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.

He drank heavily.

heavily in debt; heavily tattooed

heavily pregnant

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.

heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms

he breathed heavily

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