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How to use heaving in a sentence

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He knew bartenders who threw up their shakers over their shoulders, heaving them like they were toweling off after a shower.
She was seen heaving heavy bags of shopping through the Christmas crowds in North London three days after giving birth to her first child.
He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
The whole of us then commenced heaving the brig short, sending the whale-boat to take her in tow, after we had tripped the anchor.
I stepped off the bottom stair and collapsed against the wall next to it, heaving a sigh of relief.
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.
Archive footage shows figures in yellow oilskins, hauling nets, heaving and leaping with silver fish.
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
He grabbed her bag and tossed it to her, running to the window and heaving it open.
The Danes used to work holding the boat with an anchor and heaving the ropes to the boat.
For some unknown reason I ended up heaving a cast iron bathtub through a house in Burslem on Saturday.
One suspects the government will now, after heaving a sigh of relief, quietly hand the issue over to doctors for them to sort out.
If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country 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.
The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
The ship bobbed on the waves, without any of the sudden heaving that it had been accustomed to so far into the trip.
Packed shopping centres are heaving with pickpockets, who lift thousands of credit cards a day at this time of year.
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.
Where the pool had been was now a boulder-sized mass heaving like a whole kennel of dogs fighting in a sack.
A rowing fin that oscillates about its root requires slightly different kinematics from the simple heaving and pitching plate.
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His chest was heaving from his tantrum, but the presence of the golem calmed him.
I had only saw it when the frost and the bullfrog were heaving out of the ground.
Day by day we scanned the heaving sea, far out beyond the barrier reef, until I began to feel like Crusoe upon his lonely isle.
The impulse is heaving, pushing the palpating hand forcibly up from the chest wall.
I soon discovered that the lady had been something of a yachtswoman, and seemed perfectly at home on the heaving ocean.
The gulls seemed uneasy, in spite of the desolateness of the broad expanse of heaving swell.
This, with a glance at Dominick heaving in the subsiding storm of his mirth.
The heaving of the great pans, like battering-rams against the sides of the Neptune, made a woesome noise below decks.
I saw that whilst I had imagined my 'mountain to stand strong,' it was yet heaving with the wreckful fire.
At length, a convulsion passed over the frame of the kneeler, and heaving a deep sigh he arose.
Billy could hear them throwing down the halyards, casting off gaskets, and heaving the anchor short on the tiny winch.
Outside, Sucatash was heaving the lashings taut on the last packs.
Loretta took a run and jump into the heaving mass of the gentler Division.
Roxana's bosom was heaving with suppressed passion, and she was glowering down upon him with measureless contempt written in her face.
For awhile she lay silent, and I did not speak, though I saw by the heaving of her breast that she was weeping.
The cabins poured forth a torrent of sailors and officers, each with heaving breast and troubled eye watching the course of the cetacean.
It's but the heaving of a hand grenade, and they strike their colours.
Muza gazed at them in deep disdain, with folded arms and heaving breast.
She went up to Cornelius, crossing her arms on her heaving breast.
But yet others rushed in, until there was a little mountain of twisted limbs and bodies, heaving and tossing, and working its way about the room.
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