How To Use Heaving In A Sentence

I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
When he left, Karen found herself heaving a huge sigh of relief.
The place was heaving and, as the floorman for a minor boards bookie, the pulsating activity proved exhilarating. The Sun
Let us hope the direful upheaving, which is now felt throughout the Union, is the earthquake that will bury it forever. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.

But it is still heaving with people. Times, Sunday Times
Using the hook like a weaver's batten, he secured the heaving line under the two-inch rope that ran the length of the deck. LET NOT THE DEEP
They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
Her body lurched, so thin the lightest touch would break her in half, heaving gasps of terror.
They wore heaving broadswords belted on at the waist.
The bridge's roadway undulates gently at first, then abruptly starts heaving and twisting violently until it finally breaks apart.
Not only should he be more concerned with ending the war, improving the economy and other issues instead of upheaving the whole political system, BUT he has a tendency to play the "blame game" (i.e. blaming and then denouncing his supporters when he or they get bad press OR stating that his words were taken out of context). Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
Two bacon rashers are in the frying pan - one sizzling excitedly in its own fat, the other heaving a little as it bleeds odd white clots. Times, Sunday Times
‘Yes that's what I want’ I slammed the door in his face and leaned against it my shoulders heaving, it felt as though I had just run a mile.
The ship bobbed on the waves, without any of the sudden heaving that it had been accustomed to so far into the trip.
He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
It was not enough to fill the sail, and it was raised soon after it was unfurled, and the heaving on the oars continued.
The bunch fills the road, riders snorting, heaving and blowing hard as they try to extract maximum effort from their tired bodies for one final frenzied lunge towards the line.
She drives us to our hotel through a city heaving with frenetic activity. Times, Sunday Times
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Trapped in a hot, heaving crowd, I suffer the most terrifying claustrophobia of my life.
A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature.
It was in spinnaker, up mizzen, all sheets by the wind, and we were moving slowly ahead, heaving the lead and straining our eyes for the fixed red light on the ruined fort that would give us our bearings to anchorage. Chapter 10
Strom's pirates were swarming up the sides of their carack, heaving up the anchor. The Conquering Sword of Conan
Was this a heaving, delightful mass of humanity. Times, Sunday Times
He stood on the heaving deck.
Performance after scintillating performance emitted from audiences enormous peals of laughter, convulsions and from one patron in particular - very, very audible heaving.
He took hold of the tree bough and jumped up, heaving himself onto the branch and disappearing among the leaves.
Their covers blazed with craggy men and bosomy women clinching in front of purple mountains and heaving seas. Day of Honey
But the atmosphere was unbelievable and the place was really heaving. The Sun
Darcy burst round the corner, his chest heaving heavily as he panted.
But it is still heaving with people. Times, Sunday Times
He said he agreed, heaving a sigh.
From the bows of the Golden Sands they watched an ellipse of heaving-line rise from the stern and uncoil against the sky. THE MAIN CAGES
I would have been happier if he had used his persuasive powers with the Lord to heal the heaving roads of Bangalore.
There are no explicit scenes, yet the whole book is simply heaving. Times, Sunday Times
You could almost hear the plants, and the soil, collectively heaving a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
Two bacon rashers are in the frying pan - one sizzling excitedly in its own fat, the other heaving a little as it bleeds odd white clots. Times, Sunday Times
The normally calm, sleepy pool at Dalry was a mass of thrashing flippers, heaving bodies and random limbs.
They'd come prepared with a tub of mashed menhaden chum, but Chase wasn't ready to start heaving it over the side. AMAGANSETT
The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near. Far from the Madding Crowd
So, throughout the morning, Henriette swept and scrubbed and polished, sometimes heaving a sigh, sometimes rebuking her children, but for the most part silent as a songless bird. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
It is universally understood that heaving a major portion of your body over the surface of the water is a tough thing to do.
Yet only a couple of weeks ago, the place was heaving. The Sun
He cleared a space, heaving boxes out of the way.
he was not good at heaving passes
You could almost hear the plants, and the soil, collectively heaving a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
We had cut away our mast, and lightened the boat of all she contained -- Clara attempted to assist me in heaving the water from the hold, and, as she turned her eyes to look on the lightning, I could discern by that momentary gleam, that resignation had conquered every fear. III.9
His shoulders were heaving with sobs as I knelt beside him.
Danskin rolled over on his back, his belly heaving.
The weather was dull, and the sea, forefeeling the approach of the equinoctial gales, was restless and heaving. An Iceland Fisherman
It's lunchtime in Dublin and the city is heaving with people; gaggles of students, young office workers, couples, women with babies in buggies.
The woman fell back, chest heaving, lips moving soundlessly.
When conditions finally permitted, it was all hands on deck as we formed teams heaving on a forest of ropes to hoist the huge sails.
To mention just two problems: It was next to impossible to hold a telescope steady enough on the heaving deck of a small ship to time the eclipses accurately.
The traffic can be annoying and the place is heaving with tourists in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
Saturday Night Live" has, since its earliest days, shamelessly flirted with bad taste -- and sometimes taken a wicked delight in heaving itself over the line, rather than just tiptoeing up to it. Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season
Heaving surf tore away a lifeguard tower at Windmill Beach and storm force winds reaching 40 mph destroyed a bus shelter.
Since only a small area of the ship comes in contact with the waves, there should be less pitching, rolling and heaving in rough seas than on a conventional monohull ship of the same capacity. It Doesn't Rock, Rattle Or Roll
The traffic can be annoying and the place is heaving with tourists in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
Myers explained, “The only way that the Afghan people are going to be successful in heaving the terrorist network out of their country is to be successful against” that portion of Taliban and the Taliban leadership that are so closely linked to the al-Qaida.” Meet the Allies | PopPolitics.com
Mallory's shirtfront was heaving like the flank of a wounded animal. THE LAST RAVEN
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Heaving his head upright Michael sipped at the bitter, oily coffee and tried to focus on his sister.
He fell back into the water, his breath rasping in his heaving chest.
On a muggy Thursday evening, the dimly lit downstairs bar was heaving with a restless, reckless kinetic energy; the boozed-up, spirit-slicked office throng collaborating on a prescription for the morning-after pill. Restaurant review: Platform
Will lay flat on his back, stomach heaving, sweat pooling in sandy little lumps on the cave floor.
He was panting heavily, his chest heaving, as if he had just run a great distance.
Heaving the old wine keg against a wall, I was able to climb up and seize a rafter. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
She remembered the two men kneeling beside the chef and heaving him on to the foam mattress.
From verdant wallpaper murals to heaving citrine bodices, the imported hues of conquered cultures saturate.
She leaned back against the wall, heaving, her breath coming and going as from a bellows. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
s micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse. Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
I stood on their front lawn, my stomach heaving, trying to get my breath back.
Motorists will be heaving a sigh of relief with the announcement the by-pass is due to open before Christmas.
He worked fast, cutting and slicing the turf neatly, heaving the sod to one side.
Gudrun, and spake — “In such wise do matters show to me, as though great and evil things will betide from this trouble and upheaving; and that Brynhild will surely die.” The Story of the Volsungs
Horus gasped, chest heaving as he fumbled in his pocket in search of his asthma inhaler.
She gasped for breath, her chest heaving.
It was a place surrounded by mobs of heaving rags, rolling eyes and angry mouths. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
Rarely crowded, it's a place to chill and have drinks with friends without having to bash your way through a heaving crowd just to go to the bathroom.
It was a place surrounded by mobs of heaving rags, rolling eyes and angry mouths. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
As the artists working in the print studio pack away their things, the Jute cafe bar on the other side of the glass wall begins to fill with the heaving pre-club crowd.
The Danes used to work holding the boat with an anchor and heaving the ropes to the boat.
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
Her stomach clenched suddenly, heaving, and she had her answer.
He reversed into the stockade in a cloud of dust, and spun around to face his enemy, flanks heaving. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Heaving a sigh, Josh bent over her still laughing body and kissed her on the forehead.
The soldiers will find a heaving city of misery, mortars and stray bullets.
Red-eyed and clammy, he suggested I lay my head down on my table like he did, thus blocking out the sounds of heaving and the sight of greenish, glassy-eyed misery all around us.
They weren't meant to look too closely at the subtext, duck into the alleyway or the authentic cookhouse on route, or some red light backstage dressing room where she sat half-undressed in front of a mirror, all shallow breath and heaving breasts, rouge, heart on sleeve. Unwritten
With a similar perverseness, the potatoes crumble off forks in the process of peeling, upheaving from their centres in every direction, as if they were subject to earthquakes. Bleak House
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
A big plate of oxtail was many strong bones heaving with lean meat and dark flavour, the jus a little thinner than in a truly ideal world.
Waves arose like rolling cliffs and heaving mountains; the writhing column of a waterspout flowed upwards into a connecting arm of cloud. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
He ran to me with his chest heaving heavily and gave the letter to me.
They stand at attention, chests heaving, sucking down air in ragged gasps. The Army We Have
She's taken to upheaving the cabinets nearest the dishwasher.
A camera whirls around a hedonistic fancy dress party where people snort drugs off heaving bosoms.
The best moment of this set is the interlude between Scenes 2 and 3 in Act One, with the sound of moonlight on the water, the gentle heaving of the terrifying sea, and sailors below-decks keeping their courage up singing by sea chanteys.
It is no doubt of volcanic origin, belched out of the bowels, and on to the surface, of the earth, by the sulphurous upheavings of subterraneous and subaqueous fires, and cooled and solidified into monstrous masses by the gelid currents of the deepmost waves of the most ancient of former oceans. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
But then maybe I only think that because I believe they'd be benign and unformed stirrings, augmenting my life and not upheaving it.
I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react.
Hands pulling him in over the inflated rubber gunwale, his eyes open now, Patrick grinning, Mel heaving herself up beside him. CORMORANT
The staging milks the slamming doors, heaving bosoms, and lacy handkerchiefs for all they're worth, while allowing the truly tender moments at the end of the play to resonate.
The British literary bordello is heaving with flabby novels; it's time to give back some love to the story. Archive 2005-08-01
Some teenage fans were in raptures as the chart-topper sang yards from them and played along for the heaving crowd which spilled out into the city centre.
Changing the course of one of his anecdotes is like a tug boat heaving at an oil tanker. Times, Sunday Times
“Certainly, Your Grace,” said the long-faced magicker, heaving a put-upon sigh. Conqueror's Moon
But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
Yet only a couple of weeks ago, the place was heaving. The Sun
But the illusion is soon shattered ... the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew.
That's what we call heaving the log, Miss Garden," said the master, who had been explaining the use of the log, though in not quite so succinct The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea
The arc lights stopped me seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass. Times, Sunday Times
If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country heaving a sigh of relief.
He ran to me with his chest heaving heavily and gave the letter to me.
He put his arms around my shoulders and I leaned on shoulders, my body heaving with sobs.
The result is an album of dark shades and surprising weight, psychedelic not like a petal-laced sunburst but like a pitch-black night in a small room with walls that seem to expand and contract with your heaving chest.
Or keep your cool when you're trying to fault-find on a broken down train in the boonies and which is heaving with irrate passengers including Lord Barrington Fortescue-Smythe on his way to a summit? The Direct approach
In a moment's time, he was back, breathless and heaving for air.
My body, naturally, is completely different, or enough so that I wear & look beautiful in short floaty white dresses which barely contain my heaving bosoms.
There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience.
Heaving another sigh, he jogged down the stairs to the lobby of the venue and made his way across to the side door which would lead him round to the backstage.
He limped to the edge of the ring, and there he collapsed in the grass, his flanks heaving as he gasped for air.
Our boarding party had to get aboard a ship rolling and heaving in large seas.
Everything is tilted upward, as if the painting were upheaving its contents - more fish, fruit and meat - at the viewer.
Was this a heaving, delightful mass of humanity. Times, Sunday Times
The arc lights stopped me seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass. Times, Sunday Times
Hugh, face uppermost, his long hair drooping like some wild weed upon his wooden pillow, and his huge chest heaving with the sounds which so unwontedly disturbed the place and hour. Barnaby Rudge
Heaving a sigh, she pressed her slightly chapped lips together and began to read.
When the helicopter arrived, the salvage team was dropped onto the ship's heaving decks as a safety precaution to ensure that the towline was properly secured.
It broke on to us, upheaving and making the earth undulate, and as it came I said, ‘By Jove! that is a good earthquake.’ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
I saw her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
Leo had a sense of hundreds of heaving, perspiring bodies, closing in on him. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Was this a heaving, delightful mass of humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Brownberry after dark one night in a proper tantara, with her eyes rolling and her bosom heaving like the waves of the sea. The Torch and Other Tales
You can almost hear the First Minister heaving a sigh of relief.
But instead of putting our feet up and heaving a sigh of relief, many of us are just beginning to realise how much we've actually spent.
Labour election strategists, heaving a sigh of relief that the fuel protest seems to have been defused, are now worrying about the apathy factor in the forthcoming British election.
On this occasion I went over the hillside farm, and the same thing happened; the Germans spent most of the night in heaving shrapnel and high-explosive gas shells into us, and at dawn they dropped one of the heaviest protective barrages for their own men that I have ever seen them start, but they were not quite on to the game our boys had played, because half an hour before, our men, with the companies that were supporting them, crept out into No Man's Land as close up to the German trenches as they could get with any degree of safety, so that when the Germans dropped their barrage on the front line there was nobody there but the wounded. The Artillery at Passchendaele
Finally he calmed down, his chest heaving as he panted, his heart still pounding in his chest.
She was seen heaving heavy bags of shopping through the Christmas crowds in North London three days after giving birth to her first child.
Tuesday tropical weather hit us and drove us into pajamas -- a cloudless sky, blazing sun, high humidity, while we ploughed our way across long, slow-rolling, unrippled swells that looked so much like a vast, gently heaving sea of petroleum that, had John D. Standardoil been with us he would have suffered a probably fatal attack of heart disease if prevented from stopping right there and planning a pipe line. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
No vital movement of the people's has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
To be honest it is heaving with 16 year old scallies out on the pull.
Even the smallest amount of food left out after a meal would very quickly become the centre of a heaving mass of voracious brown bodies, with long lines of ants converging from all corners.
The wiry woman released a heaving sigh and motioned towards the small stool.
After a total of forty minutes of heaving, the skate broke surface by the side of the boat.
The parks were heaving with people for a good reason. Times, Sunday Times
The waters were heaving up in great swells.
Classy classical music in a verdant, pastoral setting - a nice alternative to the sweaty, heaving crowds of the Jazz Fest.
Smoke that smelt of churches poured from the wicks, drifted over the slowly heaving ocean, hid their feet.
From the bergie heaving a trolley load of old metal to the nearest scrap dealer, to the tannie directing an antique from the back of a bakkie into her shop. ...seeking serenity
But sheaving to carry out particular tasks was a conventional task that those operating these sort of vessels had to approach?
The arc lights stopped me seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass. Times, Sunday Times
You're standing on a high cliff, chopped off and adumbrated by the heaving green of the sea.
Ben, naked except for the strait-jacket, and blue with cold, was heaving and struggling and bellowing.
This time I remained aloft, and Wolf Larsen succeeded in heaving to without being swept. Chapter 17
As soon as her stomach stopped heaving she fled back into the kitchen, away from the sight and smell of the dead kitten, and wiped her mouth down.
I stepped off the bottom stair and collapsed against the wall next to it, heaving a sigh of relief.
You'll come across farmers on donkeys, old men in tiled bars knocking back glasses of chilled fino, village markets heaving with local vegetables, and eating places where the menu has barely changed in hundreds of years.
So she threw another stone, and then another and another, heaving with all her strength and grunting like an animal until the dun horse behind her nickered his worry. Raven Speak
Finally he calmed down, his chest heaving as he panted, his heart still pounding in his chest.
The heaving is one of the mass beneath, and comes in voluminous rolls as of hills in motion; on the surface of these are the waves, that, far as the eye can reach, take a sharp, angular, spiral form, till the whole resembles an army of spear-heads in motion. Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
So Cuhelyn was reflecting bewilderedly as he untied the ropes that pinioned arms and legs, plucking the knots loose with grim patience with his single hand, and unwound the twisted rugs from about the heaving body. His Disposition
But the atmosphere was unbelievable and the place was really heaving. The Sun
De Peisser, loathe to chase heels, is heaving a pack triply out of proportion to his lank, spindly frame.
So the desert likewise overpeopled itself upon occasion; and then there were heavings and thrustings of the crowded tribes as they elbowed themselves by natural courses towards the light. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
He cracks his vocals like a bullwhip, then garbles his lyrics with the patience of dry heaving.
His voice was huskier than it should have been and Birdie could feel his chest heaving against her bosom.
She hadn't told me any of that, but apparently, my intuition was spot on because at that point Joanne curled up in a ball and started sobbing uncontrollably and nearly dry heaving in what I can best describe as primal agony. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Is Daddy An A-Hole?
I was awoke by a heavy breathing, a noise something like sawing under the floor, and a pushing and upheaving, all very loud. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
There are no explicit scenes, yet the whole book is simply heaving. Times, Sunday Times
The waters were heaving up in great swells.
In the heaving streets, people don't seem to carry shopping bags, though the bars and restaurants are bursting.
Teenagers wept as the singing sensation sang inches from their faces and played along for the heaving crowd, which spilled out into the city centre.
They were too much engrossed in the figure fronting them, and agonisedly, with cheeks white and bosoms heaving, they waited, in their dread suspense. The Trampling of the Lilies
So much so they had no problem selling out the Olympia Theatre last night with screaming fans and even a number of celebrity faces in the heaving crowd.
But the people who run Versailles don't have to worry about ravenous, amoral deer or vinyl netting or keeping the garbage men from heaving the plastic recycling bins onto the hollyhocks. Dreading the Arrival of Daffodils
The parks were heaving with people for a good reason. Times, Sunday Times
The seven seas are heaving the weight of america's dozen or so aircraft carrier battle groups.
It rose it's head, observing her carefully and heaving a bit as she pulled herself into the saddle and took the reins in hand.
You could almost hear the plants, and the soil, collectively heaving a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
When he left, Karen found herself heaving a huge sigh of relief.
The ebb caught the boat and hurried her quietly out into the stream; Focquet was heaving on a halliard forward and the heavy nut-brown sail crept slowly up the mast. Pied Piper
Yet they willingly sail those barges out into the ocean, spending weeks on end slamming down into the troughs of waves and heaving their way up the next crest to do it again.
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
He stood above a toiling, heaving sea of greenish-black, briny waves slapping a shore far distant.
Her tears for me were more than I could bear, and I started to sob silently, my chest heaving, my shoulders shaking.
Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.
With increasing desperation, he looked for it, scanning the heaving landscape before him for something to hold onto.
The meltingpot that makes up this heaving city offered us a chance to blend - to the extent we were asked directions by visiting American hillbillies.
He saw Raymo heaving open the car door, a stutter motion, each segment leaving a blur behind.
He reversed into the stockade in a cloud of dust, and spun around to face his enemy, flanks heaving. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Changing the course of one of his anecdotes is like a tug boat heaving at an oil tanker. Times, Sunday Times
He must have been thrown off by the heaving deck because the flare traced a shallow parabola just over the top of the launch's wheelhouse. CORMORANT
He grabbed her bag and tossed it to her, running to the window and heaving it open.
When the two managed to walk to Adrian's front door, Adrian dropped the crate onto the floor with reluctance, heaving a few deep breaths and breathing between his legs until he saw a hand outreached to him.

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