Example sentences for: heave

How can you use “heave” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.

  • Like Shakespeare, he loved the heave and ho of a line in which each beat has its own word.

  • The windswept cliffs of Cabo de São Vicente, the most southwesterly point in Europe, were once surely even more bleak than they are today, when supertankers and small yachts heave into view around the cape.

  • So each March, instead or watching the Academy Awards, I rent All About Eve and heave a smoke bomb through Democratic Party headquarters.

  • Private and public gardens burst with orchids, bougainvillea, and jacarandas, while orchards heave with mangoes, passion fruit, watermelons, and avocados.


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