Example sentences for: hefty

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

  • Even a hefty $10 or $15 tip seemed a paltry thing to put in the hand of the owner of the salon.

  • The highlight is the Helikon library, claimed to be the greatest in the country, and it alone is worth the palace entrance charge (which is hefty by Hungarian standards).

  • Let's take a rare glimpse inside the News Quiz Tower (it's not yet killed as many people as that new Condé Nast Building, but next week we start heaving copies of Vogue off the observation deck) and learn what it takes to get a hefty 400-pound hog from the farm to your table to the president's desk where it is signed into law.

  • The O.J. spectacle was in full bloom at the time, and I remember thinking that it took pretty hefty stones to contend that anyone (apart from, say, those with a financial stake in Court TV) could benefit from a televised trial.

  • All events get the basics (time, cost, location), most are accompanied by a brief description, and a hefty chunk are capsule-reviewed.


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