Example sentences for: heaving

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

  • It takes seven minutes before the prison doctor pronounces him dead, seven minutes of heaving, nodding, flame, and smoke.

  • Forward is heaving hypnotically to the gentle ocean swells as we glide beneath a canopy of brilliant points of starlight.

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • We are entering the golden age of humanity, and to be a little sci-fi, people can now imagine there really might be a new form of life heaving into sight: a hybrid of organic [us] with human-created technology.

  • There's ash falling on Tafero's shirt and he's nodding his head, he's heaving his chest in and out, tied down with those thick leather straps.


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